Every developer targeting Windows learning that having a self-update mechanism in your app is required because A: users don’t update when prompted and B: getting onto the Microsoft Store is a PITA.
I haven’t dealt with package management on Windows through exes because that sounds like a nightmare.
If you look at the Python PEP history, there’s like 10 just for Windows installer bullshit and like every other month there’s some IT guy coming in and screaming about how they want the installer to be a specific way which is usually met with “if you want that you should do that then” since literally no one wants to deal with the installer since it currently functions and 90% of people are just using venv now anyways.
The alternative is the classic .exe fiasco that exists on Windows, with manual updating off sketchy sites.
the alternative is flathub
just kill internet access with flatseal to any apps that dont need it, done
But then we have to deal with permissions?!?! And the bloat! Oh god, the bloat!
price to pay to not have some 1337t dprk haxor in your computer
Flatpak next is going to have even more fine grained network sandboxing (per-app DNS, VPN portal, apps can’t talk to each other in the same network).
Every developer targeting Windows learning that having a self-update mechanism in your app is required because A: users don’t update when prompted and B: getting onto the Microsoft Store is a PITA.
Honestly most software shouldn’t require regular updates to begin with.
How else do you handle security vulnerabilities and bugs?
Just make better software to start with. Adding networking and software deployment to everything is a significant attack surface.
Updating software doesnt require networking or software deployment.
does
Your comment was definitely a broader scope than the rest of the conversation. Most software isnt self-updating.
I haven’t dealt with package management on Windows through exes because that sounds like a nightmare.
If you look at the Python PEP history, there’s like 10 just for Windows installer bullshit and like every other month there’s some IT guy coming in and screaming about how they want the installer to be a specific way which is usually met with “if you want that you should do that then” since literally no one wants to deal with the installer since it currently functions and 90% of people are just using venv now anyways.