Update-Installer | Small cross-platform software update installer

Update-Installer is a C++ library. Update-Installer has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities and it has low support. However Update-Installer has a Non-SPDX License. You can download it from GitHub.

This tool is a component of a cross-platform auto-update system. It is responsible for performing the installation of an update after the necessary files have been downloaded to a temporary directory. It was originally written for use with Mendeley Desktop (see www.mendeley.com). The tool consists of a single small binary which performs update installation, an XML file format describing the contents of an update (an 'update script') and a tool to create update scripts from a directory containing an installed application. To perform an update, the application (or another separate tool) needs to download the updater binary, an update script and one or more compressed packages containing the files for the update to a temporary directory. It then needs to invoke the updater, specifying the location where the application is installed, the location of the compressed packages and the path to the update script.