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An installation and update framework for Windows desktop apps

Language: C++

#4 in C#

#51 in Windows

Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware | Sep 2023

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As soon as Office 2007 didn't use MSI the format was doomed.

I assume the Here in NIH refers to an individual team, not MS as a whole.

Teams is entirely NIH https://github.com/Squirrel/Squirrel.Windows for updates to the Electron app.

I would use winget, but MS made it weirdly hard to run as a script on multiple computers, it installs per user, because... who knows.

So still using chocolatey

Don't Use RAR | Feb 2022

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You can have that with updates using Squirrel; https://github.com/Squirrel/Squirrel.Windows.

SourceTree for Windows 2.0 | Apr 2017

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That's correct -- we chose to do this because it allows users to install ST without admin privileges. We use Squirrel, which is an incredible library btw (https://github.com/Squirrel/Squirrel.Windows)