Set download URL to releases page for Linux

Question

Set download URL to releases page for Linux

stripedpajamas opened this issue 5 years ago · 2 comments

For Linux builds there are just two: linux-x64-archive and linux-ia32-archive.

Can't you just point to the Github download page instead of the tarball? That would be much better for RPM, deb and AppImage users.

Originally posted by @darealshinji in VSCodium/vscodium#231 (comment)

Answer 1 · 2019-08-19T19:06:10.000Z

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/29c36ae95d5cecc2ae748934199ccb63913e3f76/src/vs/platform/update/electron-main/updateService.linux.ts#L64

Answer 2 · 2019-08-19T19:10:05.000Z

We should consider if it makes more sense to manually return a url of the releases page form this API or should have the update process write the releases page as the url during post-build (but only for Linux): https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/blob/master/update_version.sh#L46