FR: Make UHK Agent AppImage updateable

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Ultimate Hacking Keyboard configurator

https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.github.io/agent/

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FR: Make UHK Agent AppImage updateable #2312

Closed jay7x closed 4 months ago

jay7x commented 4 months ago

It'd be nice if UHK Agent would support the AppImageUpdate technology: https://github.com/AppImageCommunity/AppImageUpdate. That'd make Agent update process a bit easier.

P.S. Also it'd be nice to have a flatpak, but it's another story (#1374).

mondalaci commented 4 months ago

@ert78gb How does AppImageUpdate differ from our current update mechanism?

In any case, I'm reluctant to use it at this point:

This is beta-level code. It works, and most features available work fine. However, in this state, there is not much real world experience with the application. Please report any issues on the bug tracker.

ert78gb commented 4 months ago

If I understand well the documentation there are 2 differences

the referenced method supports differencial download, so it can save bandwith
there is a service on the users computer that periodically checks for update and if it available then download it in the background. Currently the user has to start the app and the app checks for update.

ert78gb commented 4 months ago

I think when electron-builder will support this method we can consider the use of it.

mondalaci commented 4 months ago

I'm closing this issue because we don't use beta libraries. We'll keep checking electon-builder; if this feature is available, we'll consider using it.