can you add support zip on windows

[asine]

can you add support zip on windows?

[Deadpikle]

Hi @asine,

It's not in my plans right now, no. That would need to come from a community contribution. There's a lot of variables with zip files (format of file, lack of native .bat support that works back to Windows 7, etc.), and I am not going to consider adding support for those myself any time soon.

You are more than welcome to add it for your own needs by using your own SparkleUpdater subclass that reimplements RunDownloadedInstaller with that additional functionality.

[Deadpikle]

Links that may or may not be useful that we could pull into NetSparkle for zip support on Windows:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21704041/creating-batch-script-to-unzip-a-file-without-additional-zip-tools
• https://serverfault.com/questions/39071/does-windows-have-a-built-in-zip-command-for-the-command-line
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28043589/how-can-i-compress-zip-and-uncompress-unzip-files-and-folders-with-bat

(Contributions welcome; I'm really crunched for time...)

[Jazzman82]

We have just implemented a solution based on 7zip self-extracting-archives (.exe) which works out-of-the box without changes to netsparkle's interna.

Key here is to perpare an archive like described here: https://documentation.help/7-Zip/sfx.htm which can be extracted with NetSparkle using the "CustomInstallerArguments" like this:
CustomInstallerArguments = $"-o{Path.GetDirectoryName(Environment.ProcessPath)} -y"

Seems to work pretty well.

[Rwing]

Is there any progress on this issue? Perhaps we can create a universal ZipExtractor.exe to solve this issue?