Wax
An interactive editor for WiX setup projects. (by tom-englert)
omaha
Google Update for Windows (by google)
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| Wax | omaha | |
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| - | 4 | |
| 219 | 2,510 | |
| - | 0.0% | |
| 1.8 | 6.9 | |
| over 2 years ago | 8 days ago | |
| C# | C++ | |
| MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Wax
Posts with mentions or reviews of Wax.
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and similar projects.
We haven't tracked posts mentioning Wax yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
omaha
Posts with mentions or reviews of omaha.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-15.
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How exactly does updating work
This is actually a difficult problem. The general idea is that you can figure out where your application is installed, download a new version of it, and replace it. However in practice it is difficult to do in a way that works with various operating systems policies. For an example, you can see how Chrome manages this on windows https://github.com/google/omaha
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Google Chrome emergency update fixes zero-day used in attacks
You don’t opt-in to updates to Chrome and you will have one hell of a time opting out. If you’re on Windows, take a look at your task scheduler and notice that the Google Update task runs every hour in which it sends the current version of Chrome (stored in registry) to a Google URL and if that doesn’t match the latest then Google Chrome updates. You just need to restart your browser. Google update is a branded open source project called Omaha which is a very minimal and clever approach to application updates. Here’s the GitHub if you’re interested in learning more.
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Breeze Browsers.
They use a fork of Omaha Updater for updates on Windows (I use Windows btw, it sucks)
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Updating Google Chrome
Hi there. Chrome uses GoogleUpdate.exe to... er... update itself. GoogleUpdate is based on a project called Omaha. There is pretty good detail on how it works here. It might be as simple as force-running GoogleUpdate.exe with PowerShell to kickoff the update process.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Wax and omaha you can also consider the following projects:
Wix Toolset
Squirrel - An installation and update framework for Windows desktop apps
Chocolatey - Chocolatey - the package manager for Windows
Onova - Unintrusive auto-update framework
CrowdStrike_RTR_Powershell_Scripts
breeze-webstore-extension
supporting-extensions
wasmtime - A fast and secure runtime for WebAssembly