Well the products you listed are not simple programs but they have dedicated team far bigger than our entire dev team just handling the installer/update mechanism alone ;) Maybe we get there sometime...
I'm a bit confused about the manual install process you mentioned. Are you referring to manually download a MSI file using the browser and installing the update? Royal TS should notify users about a new release and usually it downloads in the background and updates itself as soon as the app is closed. Pretty much like Chrome except the part where we give the user more control whether or not the update should be installed.
The winget listing is not maintained by us yet. We tried to include this in our CI/CD pipeline (like chocolatey) but the tooling is not good right now and registering new releases is quite painful - at least it was. We will definitely look into winget soon again and we are also investigating a listing in the Microsoft Store right now.
Regards,
Stefan
thanks for the comment..
while not a programmer, I have been in IT long enough to fully get everything you've said.
it's just that I look at other apps like Chrome, Slack, Cisco Webex, and even Lego/Bricklink's Stud.io, and they are not simple programs.. yet they somehow manage to update themselves easily
I'm not overly fussed by actual installer file size.. thankfully living on 50mbit+ connections everywhere now.. it's just the manual install process that's starting to grind on me..
Looking forward to any improved system
on a side note, I was pleasantly surprised to see the new 'winget' PS module knows about Royal!
>winget install royalts
Rohan Beckett
as a long time RoyalTS user (since v2)... I'm finally going to vent a complaint:
While I love, and applaud your constant update/improvements...
I'm SO sick of having to run a full 130meg download/install/wait-while-dotnet-chugs-my PC 'optimising'.
I use RoyalTS on 7 workstations at the six different sites(Schools) I work at, as well as my Home PC...
and it's REALLY starting to grind my gears at having to upgrade all 7 installations, sometimes every week or two...
(5 upgrades since v6's June release = me installing RoyalTS 35 times in less than 8 weeks!!)
SURELY you guys can come up with a built-in updater/patching system
I'd love it to just launch RoyalTS.. have it detect a new version available -> Dialog: "would you like to upgrade?" Yes.... 20meg patch downloads/installs... and bam.. done!
thankyou for my vent :)