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Re:Electron 7.0 by mikepurvis on Thursday October 24, 2019 @01:39PM (#21347061)
Is that really possible? I feel like it would only work with considerable engineering effort, and even then, probably only if the bundled Chrome instances were all exactly the same version.
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Re:Electron 7.0 by michaelmrose on Thursday October 24, 2019 @01:47PM (#21347168)
This is literally how every gui library on planet earth works. Developers all build against a particular recent released version with all apps in the system expected to build against a small number of recent versions.

If this is hard maybe its because the browser isn't a very good runtime to build against.

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Re:Electron 7.0 by mikepurvis on Thursday October 24, 2019 @03:51PM (#21348519)
Right, but those systems are set up from the get-go with that usage pattern in mind, where you have an expectation of ABI compatibility and the underlying libraries as a shared resource.

The expectation with Electron has always been that you bundle a copy of it with your app, so that you're always targeting exactly that version.

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