Zero Install for Windows 2.20.0 released
"Bastian Eicher" <[email protected]> Thu, 14 Oct 2021 13:53:18 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.file-systems.zero-install.devel |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hello all, I recently published Zero Install for Windows 2.20.0 (https://github.com/0install/0install-win/releases/tag/2.20.0). This version has some cool new features to speed up fetching new implementations: - .zip and .tar.* archives are now extracted while downloading without the need for intermediate temporary files. - Manifest digests are now calculated while extracting archives. This saves time and reduces disk IO, because files don't need to be written to disk and then read again. Other improvements: - Unix executable bits on Windows are now inferred from .manifest files. This removes the need for separate .xbit files. - Feed validation has been improved. This leads to clearer error messages explaining which part of a feed cannot be processed. As always, you can update to the latest version by running: 0install self update You can also try this out on Linux and macOS, by running the cross-platform (.NET-based) part of Zero Install for Windows like this: 0install run https://apps.0install.net/0install/0install-dotnet.xml run https://example.com/some-feed.xml Regards Bastian