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For YEARS I remember having to chase down the VBRUN{100|200|300}.dll runtimes for the Visual Basic runtimes. Now that internet is everywhere, couldn't Electron
by jasonjayr 10y ago
For YEARS I remember having to chase down the VBRUN{100|200|300}.dll runtimes for the Visual Basic runtimes.
Now that internet is everywhere, couldn't Electron:
1) Setup a common bootstrap mechanism so it's version agnostic
2) Check for the declared version of the app
3) If online (and allowed by system policy) check if there are security issues, or updates for the needed version
4) Advise user where to download the update, or (again, if allowed by policy) allow the user the proceed with the installation?
With some magic to allow a 'side-by-side' distribution of the Electron runtime, on good-ol' durable media, wouldn't this go far to minimize the size of the distributions of these Electron apps? You could have a system with one (or more if nessecary) versions of the runtime, and multiple apps using that runtime (with isolated profiles, of course ...)