Brave-browser: brave-installer not available for release 1.5.112

[crazy-max]

Hi,

brave-installer-ia32.exe and brave-installer-x64.exe are not available for release v1.5.112.
Is it on purpose? Because these artifacts are required for Brave portable

Thanks

[akash07k]

Yes, I too am noticing the same. if it is by purpose, then please let us know the reason?

[bsclifton]

cc: @mihaiplesa @mbacchi @linhkikuchi do we still upload these? (or should we)

I think the Standalone ones should work too

[mbacchi]

We have stopped uploading these to the Github releases in order to prevent issues like this where users inadvertently install the brave-installer executable without a tag and therefore become stuck on that single version and never get updated because the tag doesn't match what is used on our update server.

There are multiple other installation options so this shouldn't be required for standard installation support.

[crazy-max]

I think the Standalone ones should work too

@bsclifton Unfortunately Standalone setups cannot be extracted programmatically so this is not an option for Brave portable.

...to prevent issues like this where...

@mbacchi This issue points to a private repo I think. Can you tell me more about this issue here?

[mbacchi]

I updated the issue that I linked to above. It was related to the tag for the installer not being set.

[crazy-max]

@mbacchi Hmmm I don't see anything about the removal of brave-installer-ia32.exe and brave-installer-x64.exe artifacts in brave/brave-browser#2221. And this also concerns Brave 0.56.14 and the artifacts have been removed since 1.5.x so...
Can you enlighten me please?

[mbacchi]

Issue #2221 was simply an example, our plan has been to discontinue distributing the brave-installer-*.exe files for quite a while, in order to prevent situations where users installed that raw executable and were never able to update automatically. Sorry if this inconveniences you.

[LazyZhu]

Even corp like Google does provide extractable none-updated version of chrome.
BraveBrowser is becoming another product like Waterfox, become famous, acquired by big corp, etc.

@crazy-max
Check Ungoogled-Chromium
https://github.com/macchrome/winchrome/releases

[crazy-max]

@mbacchi As @LazyZhu rightly says, these installers are also available for Chrome. For me this is the responsibility of the user. I find it very radical and regressive that your team simply prefers to remove these artifacts.

[bsclifton]

@mbacchi could we re-add these with a name that makes it obvious it shouldn't be used by regular users? and/or update the text that gets automatically put onto the release page? Could be something like Brave-Browser-Win32.7z (rather than uploading the .exe ending)

[bsclifton]

re-opening as examples have been provided where the files are provided by other projects

[mihaiplesa]

@crazy-max working on a fix for you now.

[akash07k]

@crazy-max working on a fix for you now.

Thanks in advance for the willingness to provide the fix.

[mihaiplesa]

Here goes:

https://brave-browser-downloads.s3.brave.com/latest/brave_installer-x64.exe
https://brave-browser-downloads.s3.brave.com/latest/brave_installer-ia32.exe

These will always be the latest stable version.

@crazy-max thanks for your work on the portable version and if you're interested in verifying your GitHub profile at https://creators.brave.com/ you can earn BAT tips from the community.

[crazy-max]

@mihaiplesa Great! Thanks a lot!