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Binaries: Unable to download #4

Closed wahmedswl closed 6 years ago

wahmedswl commented 6 years ago

Hi, please distribute full binaries rather download with the installer as not able to download always errored.

Thanks

psantosl commented 6 years ago

The reason why we have our own custom installer that just downloads the entire binaries is to easy the invitation process as follows.

Here it goes: you want to invite someone, instead of sending him a code, you just send him a link. The "code" is builtin inside the small installer (150KB). This allows us to add the metadata to the binary on the fly and sign it, upon download request. The same is not possible with a fat 70MB download (too logn to sign, create tmp copy, etc).

Now, during beta, it is only helpful to invite friends and get a reward.

But once we go commercial, team owners will be able to easily invite members just sharing a download link.

And that's why we did it this way.

We can have a fallback with a full download, though.

wahmedswl commented 6 years ago

yeah, that would be great cuz not able to download. Full download link would be welcome 👍

jemagoga commented 6 years ago

Hi, find below the download link for the latest public release: https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/gitmaster-releases/releases/GMaster-0.9.359.zip

wahmedswl commented 6 years ago

@jemagoga thanks so much, really appreciate your quick feedback 👍

jemagoga commented 6 years ago

@wahmedswl You're welcome!