Re:Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful
by josefx on Monday July 01, 2024 @03:07AM
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None of these help you if you are dealing with users that move executables for convenient access or think updating the sofware just involves dragging and dropping the new executable into the existing installation folder. Customer support had countless stories like that.
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Re:Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful
by jimbobthrowawy on Monday July 01, 2024 @08:00PM
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Does using something like APE by jart work? It's a single executable that's also a zipfile. (I assume a replaceable .dll inside the archive is LGPL compliant) I know it's a bit of a tangent, but on platforms like macos the "apps" are all directories with the .app extension, and that doesn't seem to cause issues.