provide way to create "installers" (.dmg, .msi, .deb etc)

see this thread for the original discussion: https://github.com/maxogden/electron-packager/issues/21#issuecomment-101751502

electron-packager only creates the executables, it doesn’t create the installers. I think this is a good level of complexity for electron-packager, so I think someone else should write a e.g. electron-create-installer module or something similar that is a CLI tool that is Unix Philosophy friendly (like this module and the other electron-* modules I’ve been working on).

resources/existing solutions:

• https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa372463(v=vs.85).aspx
• https://github.com/Aluxian/Facebook-Messenger-Desktop/tree/master/assets-windows
• https://github.com/atom/grunt-electron-installer
• https://github.com/domderen/atom-shell-installer

[malept]

@englishextra Electron Packager is fine to use by itself still, but if you need to create installers then Electron Forge is a good, ergonomic option. Particularly if you don’t want to glue all the pieces together yourself.

To be clear, Electron Packager is not going anywhere. I’m still maintaining it (I just made a PR this week). It’s a pretty significant dependency of Electron Forge. And it’s going to stay outside of Electron Forge because, to repeat something I mentioned in a Forge ticket:

We’re adhering to the Node community/UNIX convention where modules should ideally be created for one particular concept, and then meshed together in higher-level modules.

[malept]

The current recommended way to build installers (which also happens to use Electron Packager) is Electron Forge.