Electron-builder: How to only publish?

[cawa-93]

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In my workflow, I have to build an application, then test it, and ONLY then publish it.
To build an application without publishing, I use the command

electron-builder -p never

But how can I only publish? I already have an builded application and want to publish it. How can I do this. Is there any custom parameter to skip compilation and just publish the assembly. Something like this:

electron-builder --prebuilded <build dir> -p always

[stale[bot]]

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[hgouveia]

i am also interested in this functionality , i already has the installer using --publish never but now in later stage i want to publish it to S3, but without rebuilding it, i would like something --distrib ./build/myinstaller.exe --c.publish.channel=channel

as a workaround i did my custom publisher, that i can trigger separatly and specify a file,
in case is useful : https://gist.github.com/hgouveia/91727cade15fb931993eedc41efa9a62

[cawa-93]

@develar Is there a chance that this issue will be considered?

[MutableLoss]

The project I manage would really benefit from such a feature, as I also use a local build routine (build -> test -> publish), uploading to GitHub.

I build to 4 different targets, so I lose a significant amount of time with each app release because of the extra time taken to build during publishing. While I am planning to switch to a TravisCI setup (for this exact reason), I can still see where this feature could save a lot of time in the build process for myself and many others.

In regards to such a feature, is there a particular concern with adding an option to the publish to use the existing dist build (when available), or maybe an issue or concern specific to electron-publish?.