Hi everyone, I already have a working Compose Desk...

# compose-desktop

[rkkm_]

Hi everyone, I already have a working Compose Desktop app targeting windows and it works great!

Except that there is no ClickOnce kind of target that self updates and installs my app. I did try Hydralic but it explicitly supports Windows 10 only, so I opted to writing my own simple wrapper in Rust that uses Velopack to self-update itself and other resources.

Those resources would be the compose distribution along with runtime and jar files.
So my current hurdle is the following: Is it possible to get the compose distribution package as file tree or a zip archive?

More in the thread I guess

[rkkm_]

So I just need to get the following file tree but as zip archive or, well just plain files. I know there is a MSI and EXE target formats, but isn't there a ZIP target? I have a feeling there was one or something similar.

[rkkm_]

Oh man I'm blind. Anyway what I needed is createDistributable task xd

[Michael Paus]

Do you plan to make this generally available once you got it working?

[rkkm_]

I'm using Velopack to get self-updating and other features.

It's yet to support Java so I'm writing a Rust wrapper. So it's not a tool but rather a project tailored solution. I could, however, provide an example

[Michael Paus]

An example would still be welcomed.

[Fudge]

Hydraulic Conveyor supports Linux, MacOS, and Windows (both 11 and 10)
Not sure where you got it only supports Windows 10.

[Alexander Maryanovsky]

But does it support Windows ME?

[Fudge]

@Alexander Maryanovsky
Lol, I guess not. Literally unusable

[Colton Idle]

From conveyors docs

Conveyor uses Windows' built-in packaging technology, MSIX. A small installer EXE drives the Windows Deployment Engine APIs to install or update the package. Support for MSIX is built in to Windows. All Windows 10/11 systems support it and Microsoft have also backported it to Windows 7.1 MSIX files are enhanced ZIP files with several features that make it a good fit for modern desktop app distribution:

So it seems like it works with WIndows 7.1 +?

[rkkm_]

No it doesn't.
> Minimum system requirements
> Apps packaged with Conveyor have the following minimum system requirements.
> Windows
> • Windows 10 version 1709 ("Fall Creators Update", October 2017) or higher
> • Windows Server 2019 LTSC or higher
> • Windows Enterprise 2019 LTSC or higher
> Windows 11 works fine.
> JVM apps
> When packaging JVM apps the following requirements also apply:
> • macOS: macOS 10.14+ (Mojave)
> • Linux: glibc 2.17+ (released 2012)
>
Source: https://conveyor.hydraulic.dev/17.0/min-sys-requirements/

[rkkm_]

Also met a numerous issues with Windows 7 deployment in the wild. And since Windows 7 is a major targeted platform for us, we are looking into alternatives. Don't see anything wrong with that.

But it did work great for Windows 10+ clients.

[Colton Idle]

so that says windows 10 and windows 11. no? while your original post said windows 10 only?

[rkkm_]

Yeah, should've said win10 and 11, my bad. But I did mean Windows 10 and anything higher 🫡