cli without Electon

[techtonik]

Etcher-cli-1.0.0-win32-x86.zip

It is surprising that this dd clone for Windows is 18Mb in size and doesn't run on older systems, because it requires GUI toolkit.

[lurch]

It's already without a GUI toolkit and without Electron - but it does include a NodeJS interpreter.
And Etcher is far more than a 'dd clone'.

[techtonik]

This application is only supported on Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, or higher.

It if doesn't require Electron, why it doesn't work on other systems?

[jhermsmeier]

@techtonik that's only supposed to clarify that Windows XP isn't supported anymore. It runs on a wide variety of Linux distributions, and Mac OS as well.

[lurch]

I did a quick search, and found nodejs/node#3804 and nodejs/node#5167
If NodeJS itself doesn't support Windows XP, then the Etcher CLI (written in NodeJS) can't run on Windows XP either.

[techtonik]

Yea. New NodeJS drops Windows. Too bad Etcher is not written in Go and depends on Windows 7 features that it doesn't use.

[lurch]

Etcher is all Open Source, feel free to write your own clone of it in Go ;-)

Just out of curiosity, why do you need Etcher support on older versions of Windows? Are you able to try running it under Linux instead?

[techtonik]

Because I used Windows in childhood and I am used to it and besides I still have 3 Linuxes running, I can not use them. I won't buy next Windows, but there is still no software with UX like Far Manager on Linux.

[lurch]

I won't buy next Windows

I'll wish you luck then, as more and more software is dropping support for Windows XP.

there is still no software with UX like Far Manager on Linux.

That's something I'd never heard of, but a quick search found me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_Manager#Linux_and_MacOS_version

[jhermsmeier]

@techtonik why not run Etcher on one of the Linuxes then?

[techtonik]

@jhermsmeier good point. Still need to figure out the way to rebind Alt-F1 Alt-F2 on those Linuxes for my own purpose to port my console macros.