I maintain a chocolatey package (like apt-get for windows) that automatically grabs the windows install URL and if there is a version change, builds a new package and calculates the checksum to verify before installing. I'm hoping you guys would be willing to do a bit of work or work with me about making it a bit easier to know when and why updates are made to the Windows installer.
The problem is the *Windows_Setup.exe file is being silently updated and I don't see where that is published. I only see the major.minor version listed at the download page and the news feed https://freefilesync.org/news-feed.php
I understand this complicates things when you are trying to maintain version consistency across platforms, but hopefully you can see the benefit of tweaking your build/release process to make it a bit easier for users to manage and install either manually or from a package manager like chocolatey. The chocolatey project (website, program, other tools) are all open source, Apache v2, as well as the build scripts and source files for this package.
While we're on that topic, it would be best if there was a unique URL for each revision so users can install a previous version for whatever reason.
If you are not familiar with chocolatey, you can take a look directly at the script that is being used for install at https://chocolatey.org/packages/freefilesync#files It should be pretty straightforward. For a bit more info about the issue, you can see this comment https://chocolatey.org/packages/freefilesync#comment-2762673028 Note that currently I have to manually fix the checksum which I do by appending to the version x.y.0.YYYYMMDD https://chocolatey.org/packages/freefilesync/8.2.0.20160614 I prefer not to do this, and instead, accurately reflect the version of the installer like 8.2.11 or whatever.
REQ: update version for build version changes
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