Distribution formats about viper

[Alystrasz]

As I mentioned previously, from a features point of view, the auto update mechanism is only usable in Linux AppImage, Windows NSIS and macOS DMGs.

• Do we need another Windows format? I think NSIS already provides a standalone executable
• Is Titanfall playable on mac? I really have no idea
• Since Viper can be used to update servers potentially running on Linux, is the AppImage format adequate?

[0neGal]

Do we need another Windows format? I think NSIS already provides a standalone executable

NSIS installs it into your local AppData Programs folder, with all it's files, a portable executable is one file and nothing else. It's simply for the sake of it, while I see most users sticking to the installers a portable won't do no harm and I think it has a purpose.

Is Titanfall playable on mac? I really have no idea

Nope, not without Wine and since Wine isn't supported on newer version of macOS we don't have to worry about it.

Since Viper can be used to update servers potentially running on Linux, is the AppImage format adequate?

Hence the various package manager formats, along with a tar file. If all those aren't enough I'm not sure any are.

As for auto-updating, I'll look at implementing...

[Alystrasz]

NSIS installs it into your local AppData Programs folder, with all it's files, a portable executable is one file and nothing else. It's simply for the sake of it, while I see most users sticking to the installers a portable won't do no harm and I think it has a purpose.

Why not proposing a portable executable then, it's only a flag to add to the compile command.

Is Titanfall playable on mac? I really have no idea

Nope, not without Wine and since Wine isn't supported on newer version of macOS we don't have to worry about it.

Let's forget about Mac then :)

Since Viper can be used to update servers potentially running on Linux, is the AppImage format adequate?

Hence the various package manager formats, along with a tar file. If all those aren't enough I'm not sure any are.

I'm not very familiar with AppImage, but isn't the point of this format to run on all distros (removing the need to compile a .deb, a .rpm etc)?

[0neGal]

I'm not very familiar with AppImage, but isn't the point of this format to run on all distros (removing the need to compile a .deb, a .rpm etc)?

That is the purpose of AppImages, however I and many other people don't like using AppImages for everything, not having it in your package manager may not be what everybody wants.

I just know for myself, only having AppImages as the option is not always what you want. But yes they would lose the function all to auto update, unless we add these packages directly in the repos for that distro.