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There’s been a couple cases for electron-exclusive apps (no web app) where the devs don’t even test anything but the exact build of Chromium their version of El
by kitsunesoba 4y ago
There’s been a couple cases for electron-exclusive apps (no web app) where the devs don’t even test anything but the exact build of Chromium their version of Electron is using which I thought was bonkers. There’s no good reason for an app to be so brittle that it breaks with different non-outdated builds of the same engine.
- canadianfella 4y ago[dead]
- __jonas 4y agoMaybe I misunderstand but why is it bonkers if they ship the app bundled with the specific version they decided to support anyways? Would you commonly test an app against different versions of a dependency than the one you’re using?
- kitsunesoba 4y agoIf nothing else it means that they’re using old versions of Electron for extended periods of time — long enough that the app becomes dependent on the quirks of that particular build, which is bad with how many vulnerabilities regularly appear in Chromium and Electron. Electron should be updated much more often than that, and barring major new versions with breaking changes doing those updates should be effortless because the app is resilient enough to not need particular builds of Chromium.