RFP - nextcloud-talk

[RTechSn]

Checklist

• The package I am requesting does not already exist on https://community.chocolatey.org/packages;
• There is no open issue for this package;
• The issue title starts with 'RFP - ';
• The download URL is public and not locked behind a paywall / login;

Package Details

Software project URL : https://github.com/nextcloud-releases/talk-desktop

Direct download URL for the software / installer: https://github.com/nextcloud-releases/talk-desktop/releases/latest/download/Nextcloud.Talk-windows-x64.msi

Software summary / short description: Nextcloud Talk is a messenger app integrated to Nextcloud.

[github-actions]

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File Validation Output

TrID/32 - File Identifier v2.24 - (C) 2003-16 By M.Pontello
Definitions found:  18433
Analyzing...

Collecting data from file: C:\Users\RUNNER~1\AppData\Local\Temp/software.tmp
 63.7% (.CPL) Windows Control Panel Item (generic) (57583/11/19)
 11.6% (.EXE) Win64 Executable (generic) (10522/11/4)
  7.2% (.DLL) Win32 Dynamic Link Library (generic) (6578/25/2)
  5.5% (.EXE) Win16 NE executable (generic) (5038/12/1)
  4.9% (.EXE) Win32 Executable (generic) (4504/4/1)

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[ShGKme]

There is an EXE installer and portable ZIP archive available at the download page.

Note: we don't provide .zip for Windows anymore (we don't see any value in it until we want to do an actually portable version).

However, there is (maybe temporary) .msi with deployment tool from Squirrel.

We might go to classic MSI (like wix) if we find the one with Squirrel unusable in some cases.

[ShGKme]

The code and releases are in separate repositories

This is not entirely correct. All the releases are pushed to nextcloud-releases. See tagged commits, for example: https://github.com/nextcloud-releases/talk-desktop/tree/v1.0.0-rc.2. Also, GitHub releases include source code as Source code (zip) in assets.

[RTechSn]

Note: we don't provide .zip for Windows anymore (we don't see any value in it until we want to do an actually portable version).

This is not entirely correct. All the releases are pushed to nextcloud-releases. See tagged commits, for example: https://github.com/nextcloud-releases/talk-desktop/tree/v1.0.0-rc.2. Also, GitHub releases include source code as Source code (zip) in assets.

Thank you for clarification. I had hoped that additional information would be useful for potential maintainers.
Fixed now.

[RTechSn]

Updated 'Direct download URL' to MSI installer.

[ShGKme]

Note: this is still the same squirrel inside msi and "experimental" as mentioned in the README.

We decided to move to a classic (wix) instead of Squirrel for MSI. It will be available this month.