[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 124702] New: Simplify auto-updated effort, and combine it with bootstrap application which could download and install LibreOffice

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124702

            Bug ID: 124702
           Summary: Simplify auto-updated effort, and combine it with
                    bootstrap application which could download and install
                    LibreOffice
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: Installation
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: mikekaganski at hotmail.com

The idea is specifically about Windows.

Currently, thee's an effort to create an auto-updater, which would finally
re-enable the functionality in "Check for Updates" dialog, doing that in
efficient way, i.e. downloading and installing some small-sized patches.

While that seems reasonable, the problems implementing that seem too much.

We have another problem, that there's no easy way for user to choose installer
UI language different from auto-detected by msiexec (one could play with
"Region and Language" -> "Format", or use command line like "msiexec /i
LibreOffice_X.Y.Z_Win_x64.msi ProductLanguage=1033", but that all is outside of
user's scope).

So my proposal is this: could we simplify the auto-update function to simply
checking if a newer applicable .MSI exists, and downloading it and launch? This
would of course need to download ~300 MB MSIs instead of some smaller packages.
But that would still improve things for wast majority of users who don't care
much about that size downloaded; and even improve things for the rest who care
(if not in download size, then in ease of update process - at least, that
solution would be in no way worse than status quo). The auto-updater could take
care of downloading and launching the MSI installer with UI language matching
current user UI; which gives us all the code necessary for the small bootstrap
application downloadable from the main site, which could do the same: search
for latest applicable MSI on TDF site, download it, ask user for installation
UI language, and launch MSI with that language. Having that bootstrap
downloadable from main site as a download option (also requiring user to only
download one small thing, and not bother with other downloads) would not
exclude availability of MSI itself for those who need it to e.g. enterprise
deployments using GPOs, etc.

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