Linux: Be more restrictive with executable name

• Version: 7.11.3

• Target: Linux (any)

Currently electron-builder uses productName info for naming app’s main executable, which may be painful for Linux binaries being run from command terminal, if that info contains uppercase letters, spaces, etc.

I would like to suggest a new option executableName for Linux binaries, with the following restrictions:

• should not contain spaces
• should not contain uppercase letters
• should not contain any special characters which have some meaning for the shell (e.g.: &).

If no executableName is provided in package.json, electron-builder could calculate it from name or productName options (convert to lowercase, strip spaces, replace special characters with - or _, etc.).

[develar]

Yes. Also, in any case, all file names are sanitised using https://www.npmjs.com/package/sanitize-filename

[develar]

but it’s not clear to me in your documentation which character set is allowed for name.

name according to npm rules — https://docs.npmjs.com/files/package.json#name “must not have uppercase letters in the name”, “name can’t contain any non-URL-safe characters.”