Provide .msi package in releases

[johnd0e]

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feature

.msi is useful e.g. for automation

描述 Motivation

.msi package was included in Releases up to v0.3.51, that it disappeared without explanation.
I wonder if it is bug or intended action.

Solution

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还有其他内容吗？Anything else?

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你是否愿意提交一份 PR？Are you willing to submit a PR?

• 我愿意提供 PR! I'm willing to submit a PR!

[yetone]

This is the reason why .msi is no longer provided:

Firstly, I wrote "all" in the bundle.targets of my tauri.conf.json, which led it to build both wix installer (.msi) and nsis installer (-setup.exe). However, the default configuration of updaterJsonPreferNsis in Tauri's official github action tauri-apps/tauri-action@v0 is false (resulting in the generated updater json containing msi package), so users who installed with -setup.exe can never update successfully. Plus, recently Tauri's packaged .msi always lacks files and gets falsely reported by Windows Defender. But there are no issues with -setup.exe, so I completely abandoned .msi and only packaged -setup.exe.

Pitfalls:

1. I packaged both .msi and -setup.exe, which can easily be mixed up.
2. The default in Tauri's official action is .msi for updater json but they mentioned changing it to default -setup.exe for Tauri 2.0 in comments.
3. Recently packed .msis from Tauri lack files and get falsely reported.

https://x.com/yetone/status/1782486009680417097