Distribute releases in .zip

ByzantineFailure / BPM-for-Discord

BPM for Discord's Desktop App. Includes one-click installers, update notifications, and custom script support.

GNU Affero General Public License v3.0

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Distribute releases in .zip #69

Closed Hithroc closed 7 years ago

Hithroc commented 7 years ago

A lot of new people don't have 7zip installed, which makes installation process harder and more frustrating: you have to download 7zip and have administrator rights on the machine. Of course you can download portable 7zip and use it without installer, but that doesn't make installation process any easier.

ByzantineFailure commented 7 years ago

I actually wanted to do this initially, but I discovered to my rather intense chagrin that MS' .zip tool doesn't actually support long file paths which are required when distributing a node application (which this is).

See this comment here from December 2015

I'm going to close this but believe me when I say I'd prefer .zip if Windows' tooling supported it (Similarly I am unwilling to distribute this differently for different OSs when the only difference is compression format).