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Windows: Offer installers for more than stable builds

Added by osfanbuff63 over 2 years ago. Updated over 2 years ago.

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Currently, Dolphin builds past around 5.0 compile as a 7z file. This makes it incompatible with winget, Windows's package manager of sorts. (Source: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs#windows-package-manager-community-repository). One of the major features of winget is that you can export a package list and import it on another device via winget export and winget import respectively, and as a result, the only compatible version of Dolphin is 5.0 - which we all know is far too old.

One solution, which would make this more user-friendly in the first place, would be to offer .exe or .msi(x) files that automatically install Dolphin (basically: unzip the dolphin 7z file to %ProgramFiles% or %AppData% (or %LocalAppData%), create a shortcut on the Desktop, and complete. It also will need to be compatible with a silent install, but that isn't a huge deal given there are many - even OSS - programs supporting it.

Sorry if I put this in the wrong place, I've never made this kind of thing for Dolphin :P

Actions #1

Updated by JosJuice over 2 years ago

  • Subject changed from Windows: Compile as exe/msi(x) instead of 7z to Windows: Offer installers for more than stable builds
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