kevinheader / 0install-win

C# code for the Windows version

Zero Install for Windows

Zero Install is a decentralized cross-platform software-installation system available under the LGPL.

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Zero Install for Windows is built upon the Zero Install .NET Backend.

Directory structure

• src contains source code.
• lib contains pre-compiled 3rd party libraries which are not available via NuGet.
• doc contains scripts for generating source code documentation.
• nuget contains NuGet spec files used to generate NuGet packages for Zero Install.
• powershell contains scripts for creating PowerShell modules.
• build contains the results of various compilation processes. It is created on first usage.
• release contains scripts for creating a Zero Install feed and archive for publishing a build.

VERSION contains the version number used by build scripts. Use .\Set-Version.ps1 "X.Y.Z" in PowerShall to change the version number. This ensures that the version also gets set in other locations (e.g. AssemblyInfo).

Building

• You need to install Visual Studio 2017 to build this project.
• The file VERSION contains the current version number of the project.
• Run .\Set-Version.ps1 "X.Y.Z" in PowerShall to change the version number. This ensures that the version also gets set in other locations (e.g. GlobalAssemblyInfo.cs).
• Run .\build.ps1 in PowerShell to build everything.
• If you wish to deploy the release after compilation as the default Zero Install instance in your user profile run .\build.ps1 -Deploy.
• To deploy it for all users use .\build.ps1 -Deploy -Machine.

Environment variables

• ZEROINSTALL_PORTABLE_BASE: Set by the C# code to to inform the OCaml code of Portable mode.
• ZEROINSTALL_EXTERNAL_FETCHER: Set by the C# code to make the OCaml code delegate downloading files back to the C# implementation.
• ZEROINSTALL_EXTERNAL_STORE: Set by the C# code to make the OCaml code delegate extracting archives back to the C# implementation.