Squirrel.Windows
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Squirrel
No compatibility with .NET 5 / 6
Wanted to add here that in order for Squirrel to work properly .NET 4.7.2 or similar needs to be used. Custom events won't fire in .NET 5, neither in .NET 6: the App does not detect Squirrel Aware Assembly Attribute as well. It's broken on a couple smaller details. Took me the entire morning to figure this out, hope this helps for anyone having the same issues looking around.
.NET 4.7.2 is actually .NET Framework, .NET 5 is based on .NET Core and not Framework. Squirrel needs to be converted to .NET 5 and this has not been done. Unfortunately, the solution is to either fork Squirrel and convert it yourself or create a custom solution that suits your project's needs. I am converting a project to .NET 5 and the team has just made a Batch (+ Unix SH for .NET MAUI when that comes out) script to replace Squirrel, at least temporarily. See #1737
See also https://github.com/Squirrel/Squirrel.Windows/pull/1692#issuecomment-932863504 - it solves this too.
I am a little bit confused, because already several branches exists which should support .net5/6 https://github.com/AArnott/Squirrel.Windows https://github.com/clowd/Clowd.Squirrel
Is there any news if the orginial package will ever support .net6? Or when is there a next release of at least the development branch?
I'll try to get to it soon. Remember that I am paid approximately $0 for this library despite literally several billion-dollar companies relying on it, and also I have three kids 🤣
@anaisbetts maybe you should set up some way to donate to the project? I am sure such a popular library would attract donations.
Custom events won't fire in .NET 5, neither in .NET 6: the App does not detect Squirrel Aware Assembly Attribute as well.
This is fixed in the fork here https://github.com/clowd/Clowd.Squirrel, which is now net6 and has no additional runtime dependencies, for all variations of published apps. It also includes support for PublishSingleFile bundles which is not fixed by #1692. In a single file bundle, the VersionBlock is un-settable (opening the resources corrupts the appended bundle) and the C# attribute is unreadable (as it's compressed/trimmed) - the only thing preserved from the entry assembly is assembly manifest - so it reads the SquirrelAwareVersion from there. Assembly manifest is also easily settable in both native and C# applications, so also adds some additional consistency. (See Clowd.Squirrel#2)
It is a available as a nuget package, but there have been many other breaking changes, fixes, improvements, etc - so read the github release notes carefully if interested.
