provide way to create "installers" (.dmg, .msi, .deb etc)
See original GitHub issuesee 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:
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@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:
The current recommended way to build installers (which also happens to use Electron Packager) is Electron Forge.