Updater-Demo

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Updater Demo

This is a working updater demo (currently windows only) using the "Launcher/App Interdependence Architecture" (great name, I know).

That means the launcher is the starting point. The launcher the checks for updates for the app and applies them, if available. The launcher then launches the app and exits. The app checks for updates for the launcher and applies them, if available.

That way, launcher and app are both always up-to-date. The launcher might have additional features, like a repair process or sending feedback, whatever your heart desires.

Setup

Execute the powershell scripts build-data.ps1 to create app and launcher versions 1.0.0 through 1.0.3 (which are the files served by the update server) and build-demo.ps1 to build the initial executables. You can place them in whatever directory you like, just make sure that the launcher and the app are placed in the same directory.

Usage

1. Start up the update server.
2. Start the launcher. Not much should happen besides the launcher starting the app and then exiting.
3. After using the build-demo.ps1 script, launcher.exe and app.exe are at version 1.0.0. Play around with the version strings in files in internal/assets/versionFiles, run the launcher again and see the magic!