Consider replacing nobin-debian-installer

[feross]

nobin-debian-installer seems abandoned by @grunjol. So I made a fork here (https://github.com/webtorrent/nobin-debian-installer) with the following fixes:

• Fix npm audit grunjol/nobin-debian-installer#8 (thanks @hicom150)
• Fix test grunjol/nobin-debian-installer#7 (thanks @hicom150)
• Fix deprecation warning in Node 7 grunjol/nobin-debian-installer#4 (my PR from 2017 that still hasn't made it into a release)

If @grunjol doesn't respond soon, we should probably replace this package with an alternative so we don't have to maintain our own fork.

[hicom150]

#1682 is a PR to try to replace nobin-debian-installer with electron-installer-debian.

Hope that it would help to make a step forward for more linux distribution support 😉

[grunjol]

Hi there!
I just checked your mention.
For some reason I didn't get the PRs notification. I will be glad to merge them and make a release this week.

Regarding the electron-installer-debian, is the package cross-platform? or is *nix only?

[feross]

Thanks for responding @grunjol. What do you think of @hicom150's PR? It seems useful to be able to just add in other electron-installer-* packages following the same style and get support for more platforms, I think.

[hicom150]

I will be glad to merge them and make a release this week.

That would be awesome! 👍

Regarding the electron-installer-debian, is the package cross-platform? or is *nix only?

As far as it says in the documentation this seems to support OSX and Linux.

[feross]

Yep, it worked on macOS for me. Since this is merged now and we can rely on the electron community to maintain it for us in the future, I think it was right call. Closing this now.