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Add an option to use local electron binaries

See original GitHub issue

Right now electron-packager can only be used with official releases (dowloaded with electron-download). I would be interested in using it with locally built binaries (instead of specifying version, we would specify binary-path?).

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Created 8 years ago
Reactions:3
Comments:38 (18 by maintainers)

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maleptcommented, Dec 28, 2019

Those that are Linux distribution package maintainers are unfortunately an extremely tiny percentage of consumers of this package. I maintain this package in my spare time, so I’m not currently willing to maintain a feature for so few users, especially if it depends on being able to have a source copy of Electron (& building it) available. I think that generating a zip file via the build scripts in the Electron repository is a reasonable tradeoff.

That being said, I have recently joined the GitHub Sponsors program, so I’m willing to maintain features that are needed by a smaller percentage of the userbase in return for monetary compensation.

Alternatively, I’m willing to accept a pull request for exactly what you’re looking for (with the appropriate documentation & tests that it only works with one specific Electron platform/arch combination), on the condition that the person submitting the request is willing to maintain the feature.

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maleptcommented, Dec 18, 2019

The feature is in pull request #1094.