{"action":"closed","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/atom/atom-shell/issues/1166","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/atom/atom-shell/issues/1166/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/atom/atom-shell/issues/1166/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/atom/atom-shell/issues/1166/events","html_url":"https://github.com/atom/atom-shell/issues/1166","id":58476025,"number":1166,"title":"asar deters me from using atom-shell","user":{"login":"shrewdlogarithm","id":4963937,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4963937?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/shrewdlogarithm","html_url":"https://github.com/shrewdlogarithm","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/shrewdlogarithm/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/shrewdlogarithm/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/shrewdlogarithm/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/shrewdlogarithm/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/shrewdlogarithm/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/shrewdlogarithm/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/shrewdlogarithm/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/shrewdlogarithm/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/shrewdlogarithm/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":6,"created_at":"2015-02-21T21:36:56Z","updated_at":"2015-02-27T20:27:58Z","closed_at":"2015-02-27T20:27:58Z","body":"As a developer working on Windows asar is a pain-in-the-ass to get working (I raised an issue in that repo - dependencies on Python and ancient Net Frameworks) and it seems a bit of an unfinished thing to be trusting???\r\n\r\nComing from node-webkit, packaging an atom-shell app is a bit of a mess - I raised another issue here about which files are absolutely required because users are getting more wary of what they install (as they should be) and applications which ship with a tonne of files are a major turn-off - not to mention being a PiTA the maintain/update!?\r\n\r\nJust my 10p - it would be nice to have a bit more detail on which files are required/optional and perhaps an alternative to asar which doesn't involve sending all the source files (a zip which is extracted at run-time - ala node-webkit - for example)\r\n\r\nNote: I'm not interested in 'hiding' or 'obfuscating' source because that's a waste of time - I'd just like a neater way of distributing apps!\r\n\r\nAny plans in that area?"}}