wyupdate | source updater for Windows programs

by wyday C# Version: release-2.6.8 License: BSD-2-Clause

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wyupdate is a C# library. wyupdate has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has a Permissive License and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

wyUpdate is the open source updater that's included with wyBuild. wyUpdate checks for updates, downloads any that are available, and safely updates your program. It handles in stride obstacles like Windows Vista's, Windows 7's, and Windows 8's User Account Control (UAC), limited-user problems, and many other subtleties.

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wyupdate has a low active ecosystem.

It has 113 star(s) with 46 fork(s). There are 15 watchers for this library.

It had no major release in the last 6 months.

There are 0 open issues and 5 have been closed. On average issues are closed in 2 days. There are no pull requests.

It has a neutral sentiment in the developer community.

The latest version of wyupdate is release-2.6.8

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wyupdate has 0 bugs and 0 code smells.

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wyupdate has no vulnerabilities reported, and its dependent libraries have no vulnerabilities reported.

wyupdate code analysis shows 0 unresolved vulnerabilities.

There are 0 security hotspots that need review.

License

wyupdate is licensed under the BSD-2-Clause License. This license is Permissive.

Permissive licenses have the least restrictions, and you can use them in most projects.

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wyupdate releases are not available. You will need to build from source code and install.

Installation instructions are available. Examples and code snippets are not available.

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Choose right Windows directory to install software and allow auto-updates

QUESTION

Choose right Windows directory to install software and allow auto-updates

Asked 2019-Aug-02 at 16:01

We are writing an installer for our Windows tool. As our tool uses an updater (wyUpdate) and we want that users WITHOUT Administator rights can performs updates. Which is the right directory to install the app to? The standard C:\Program Files requires Administrator rights, so we have discarded this option. After reading a bit on the Web, we have chosen AppData, i.e. C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local.

Is this best practice? Or should we use another directory?

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ANSWER

Answered 2019-Aug-02 at 16:01

If you do not want to allow your users to mess with the installed program, you have to install it to a folder that needs Administrator privileges.

To allow an automatic update of such application, you need to develop/install a service that runs with Administrator privileges, which will update the installation. This is what Windows Update, Mozilla Maintenance Service, Google Chrome Elevation Service, Adobe Acrobat Update Service and similar services do.
If you do not want to implement a service, but you want the application to be used by all users of the machine, you need to install it to a folder that can be accessed by all users, yet does not need Administrator privileges. You can for example use C:\Users\Public. See also Is there a shared folder in Windows to which non-elevated users have write access?. You can use PUBLIC environment variable to resolve that path.
If the application is to be used by one user only, then you are ok with using C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local – {userappdata} in Inno Setup.

Source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55025867

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