This removes the remnants of the unused "robot protocol",
which was previously used by the CLI, but has been superseded by IPC.
Change-Type: minor
Changelog-Entry: Remove unused robot protocol
By far WoeUSB is one of the few applications that support Windows image
and runs on GNU/Linux so I assume it is worth to mention it. Additional
line wrapping is made to comply to the code conventions.
Signed-off-by: 林博仁 <Buo.Ren.Lin@gmail.com>
As recently several people have been asking for things
that are described in `RUNNING-LOCALLY.md`, but couldn't be
found in the `CONTRIBUTING.md`, this consilidates the two into
one single resource to look for on how to get started developing.
Change-Type: patch
We've been using `electron-builder` v2 all this time to create the NSIS
installer. This commit upgrade `electron-builder` to v18.6.2, and keeps
using it just to create the NSIS installer (for now).
The final package behaves exactly like the one we have before, just that
we needed various tweaks to upgrade to the latest `electron-builder`
version.
In more detail:
- Inject data to package.json using the new `--extraMetadata` option
- Remove old `.builder` package.json property
- Change the author of the project to Resin Inc. (the company name used
in our code-signing certificate)
As an extra, the new NSIS installer allows the user to install the
application to any location, and fixes the fact that the previous
installer copied the application to C:\Program Files (x86) even on x64
systems.
Change-Type: patch
Fixes: https://github.com/resin-io/etcher/issues/1030
Fixes: https://github.com/resin-io/etcher/issues/877
Signed-off-by: Juan Cruz Viotti <jv@jviotti.com>
Etcher supports disabling the update notification dialog by setting the
`ETCHER_DISABLE_UPDATES` environment variable.
In order to simplify disabling updates for when these are managed by a
package manager (e.g. in a debian package), this removes support for the
`ETCHER_DISABLE_UPDATES` environment variable, and instead requires
packagers to tweak the `updates.enabled` property of the package.json
file, which is set to `true` by default.
We don't want to encourage end users to disable the update mechanism, so
the documention was removed from `USER-DOCUMENTATION.md`. This option
will remain as something only packagers should tweak.
Change-Type: minor
Changelog-Entry: Remove support for the `ETCHER_DISABLE_UPDATES` environment variable.
Signed-off-by: Juan Cruz Viotti <jv@jviotti.com>
We currently have various npm script target, and some of them are
getting complex enough that making sense out of them in package.json is
not a trivial task.
This commit moves all npm targets that are not directly recognisable by
npm (like `start`, `test`, `preshrinkwrap`, etc) into the Makefile.
Signed-off-by: Juan Cruz Viotti <jv@jviotti.com>
We're currently hardcoding various pip dependencies in
`appveyor-install.bat` and `travis-install.sh`.
This commit moves all the dependencies to a `requirements.txt` file in
the root of the project, and makes every install script run `pip install
-r requirements.txt`.
See: https://github.com/resin-io/etcher/pull/1401#discussion_r116547053
Signed-off-by: Juan Cruz Viotti <jviotti@openmailbox.org>
Sentry error reports showcase that elevation errors on Windows are one
of the most frequent Windows errors.
In order to perform Windows elevation, we ship compiled EXEs of a third
party CLI elevation application (http://code.kliu.org/misc/elevate/)
that has several limitations:
- We have the scan the output of the script to determine if a user
cancelled the elevation request, which causes all sorts of issues on
computers where English is not the main language
- The application displays a `cmd.exe` window for some milliseconds,
which is bad UX, that we have to workaround by distributing a patched
version of the tool
- The CLI application has to be spawned, which seems to be problematic
if users have anti-virus software, leading to hard to debug issues
- We don't have any control if something goes wrong
For these reasons, we decided to implement our own elevation mechanism
in C++ as a Node.js add-on, based on the `elevate.exe` code we where
previously using.
Misc changes:
- Introduce a `lib/shared/bindings.js` module to easily require local native
add-ons
- Install `cpplint` and configure it to lint C++ files
Note that for practical reasons, the C++ code lives in this repository
rather than in a separate module. We will release this functionality in
a more accessible way in the future as part of the Etcher SDK project.
Change-Type: patch
Changelog-Entry: Fix uncaught errors when cancelling elevation requests on Windows when the system's language is not English.
Signed-off-by: Juan Cruz Viotti <jviotti@openmailbox.org>
`etcher-latest-version` was kept in a separate repository in order to
re-use it with the Etcher website, however the Etcher website is not
using it at all, and we're moving towards having the website in the main
repository.
Therefore, this commit brings back the logic from
`etcher-latest-version`, but introduces it as
`lib/shared/s3-packages.js`, in order to not tie ourselves to the
AngularJS framework, and as a step towards the Etcher SDK.
As a nice little bonus, this commit adds support for an
`ETCHER_FAKE_S3_LATEST_VERSION` environment variable that can be used to
trick Etcher that there is an available update, and therefore show the
update notifier modal.
Also, this commit adds support for snapshot builds update-checks, by
checking the `resin-nightly-downloads` S3 bucket if the current version
contains a git commit hash build number.
If the version is not a production release, then the update notifier
modal doesn't present the checkbox to disable update notifications for X
days.
We also add a property called `updates.semverRange` to `package.json`,
which can be used to fine control which versions are considered as
candidates for an update notification.
This commit adds a setting called `includeUnstableChannel`, which can be
used to tweak whether unstable (beta) releases are considered or not
when checking for the latest available version.
See: https://github.com/resin-io-modules/etcher-latest-version
Fixes: https://github.com/resin-io/etcher/issues/953
Signed-off-by: Juan Cruz Viotti <jviotti@openmailbox.org>
