Squirrel VS Wax

Squirrel

• ClickOnce
  3 projects | /r/dotnet | 11 Nov 2023

  I never had much luck with ClickOnce, so I was using Squirrel.Windows. I've recently switched to the Clowd.Squirrel fork, since I needed support for AzureSignTool in the build process.

• Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware
  11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Sep 2023

  As soon as Office 2007 didn't use MSI the format was doomed.

  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 script on multiple computers, it installs per user, because... who knows.

  So still using chocolatey

• Thanks, log
  1 project | /r/iiiiiiitttttttttttt | 11 May 2023

  Back in the day, wasn't Discord installed using Squirrel?

• C# Windows desktop app - Best way to create an installer and auto-updater?
  1 project | /r/dotnet | 20 Apr 2023
• In the year 2023, what is the best way to deploy/distribute a WPF Application?
  5 projects | /r/dotnet | 15 Apr 2023

  Originally, we used to use Squirrel.Windows for our internal applications but we had a few issues with it before we finally dropped it.

• WinForms Application Updater
  5 projects | /r/dotnet | 19 Feb 2023

  The most viable option with the path of least resistance would be Squirrel.Windows as it is both and installer and updater but has some caveats (SemVer pattern must be followed).

• [ClickOnce] How to get rid of this message?
  1 project | /r/csharp | 6 Feb 2023

  Maybe someone has a better ide, but this is one of many reasons why I'm trying to get all our old ClickOnce installers migrated to something else (I've heard good things about Squirrel.

• Compose Multiplatform 1.2 Is Out: New Mouse and Keyboard APIs, ProGuard Support, Online Updates
  3 projects | /r/Kotlin | 13 Oct 2022

  Electron does have auto-update built in (Squirrel), but it comes with severe non-price related caveats. Squirrel is only intermittently maintained and goes through long periods in which the different versions are abandoned (see for Windows, macOS). People have requested a switch to Sparkle on macOS, which is what Conveyor uses, but with no response. There's also the issue that their update solutions require interactive servers but the only free one is restricted to open source projects, and isn't itself open source. The Electron website points you towards a variety of projects if you want to run your own server but all of them are (again) abandoned for years.

• What is currently a good way to provide an installer for WPF application?
  2 projects | /r/dotnet | 1 Oct 2022

  We replaced clickonce with https://github.com/Squirrel/Squirrel.Windows and are generally happy with the choice

• How to disable discord from trying to update after reboot?
  1 project | /r/discordapp | 26 Aug 2022

  Discord in the Task Manager can sometimes show up as "Update", made by GitHub, because Discord uses a program, that GitHub / their devs were/are involved with making, to update the app, and some kind of bug happens that means it doesn't display as 'Discord'.

Wax

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