Desktop Deployment using Squirrel with Paul Betts
Episode #1535
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
How do you do desktop deployment? Carl and Richard talk to Paul Betts about the open source project called Squirrel, which is all about making desktop deployment less painful. As Paul says, like ClickOnce, only doesn't suck! This leads to a discussion about the various installation tools out there and what they focus on. Paul talks about what makes Squirrel different - providing the tooling to make it easier for a developer to provide unobtrusive updating of applications - as in, not when they start up!
Guests:
Paul Betts
Paul Betts is a software developer who writes lots of open-source software, his latest work is on the Slack Desktop app and Electron-based projects. Previously, he was at GitHub working on GitHub Desktop
Links:
- Snickler https://github.com/snickler/EFCore-FluentStoredProcedure
- Squirrel https://github.com/Squirrel
- WiX Toolset http://wixtoolset.org/
- ClickOnce https://docs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/deployment/clickonce-reference
- Electron https://electronjs.org/