Squirrel/Squirrel.Windows
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An installation and update framework for Windows desktop apps
10 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 2 stories, 8 comments · first 2013-10-23 · latest 2024-09-12
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…called Squirrel.Window for managing installs. I can't believe I've never heard of this until now! https://github.com/Squirrel/Squirrel.Windows . Fastest loading electron app I've ever seen. As a long time user of Ballsamiq. This is…
comment by DonnyV · 2024-09-12 · in Show HN: Konty – A Balsamiq-alternative lo-fi wireframe tool for modern apps -
…Squirrel[^1] used in Windows apps. Looks like it's used by Electron[^2], so maybe that's why. [1]: https://github.com/Squirrel/Squirrel.Windows/tree/develop/do... [2]: https://github.com/electron/electron/blob/main/docs/api/auto...
comment by accoil · 2024-02-13 · in Sparkle: A software update framework for macOS -
…I assume the Here in NIH refers to an individual team, not MS as a whole. Teams is entirely NIH https://github.com/Squirrel/Squirrel.Windows for updates to the Electron app. I would use winget, but MS made it weirdly hard to run as a…
comment by mavhc · 2023-09-13 · in Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware -
You can have that with updates using Squirrel; https://github.com/Squirrel/Squirrel.Windows .
comment by Horba · 2022-02-25 · in Don't Use RAR -
…users to install ST without admin privileges. We use Squirrel, which is an incredible library btw ( https://github.com/Squirrel/Squirrel.Windows )
comment by RandoSTDev · 2017-04-27 · in SourceTree for Windows 2.0 -
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An installation and update framework for Windows desktop appsstory by dimasf · 2016-08-23 · 1 comment
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Squirrel – An installation and update framework for Windows desktop appsstory by lx · 2015-08-25 · 0 comments
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…tools/frameworks that you might end up using in the final project. Here are a few recommendations: https://github.com/Squirrel/Squirrel.Windows https://github.com/akavache/Akavache http://reactiveui.net/ http://mahapps.com/…
comment by AdamMcQuaid · 2015-03-10 · in ASK HN: Is 30 days enough to create an HRS using .Net -
https://github.com/Squirrel/Squirrel.Windows
comment by ghuntley · 2014-11-13 · in Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform -
…- http://signalr.net/ - https://github.com/Redth/PushSharp - https://github.com/Squirrel/Squirrel.Windows Last but not least: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/archive/2013/06/26/d...
comment by ghuntley · 2013-10-23 · in Ask HN: Why the Microsoft hate?