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> Conveyor replaces App Installer with its own installer that drives MSIX via the API because App Installer is too buggy to rely on. What's the plan for fixing that?

Have you considered making this installer open-source, and then asking Microsoft to co-develop it and ship releases of it as a replacement for App Installer?

>>derefr+(OP)
If Microsoft wants to offer to buy the company they can email me about it, otherwise, no. It's a small firm without venture funding so we can't just open source our product.

>>mike_h+l
I mean, from what you said, "the installer" isn't your product, no? The build system is your product. The custom installer that the build tool emits is just something you had to create as a workaround because the Microsoft one sucks, and which is a pure cost center for you, and one redundant to Microsoft's own efforts.

Wouldn't you prefer to have your build system just emitting .msix for Windows, with the expectation that all Windows systems will then run your good installer in response to opening any .msix?

>>derefr+t1
The product is "desktop app distribution as easy as for a web app" and encompasses whatever's required to do that. It's not just the custom installer, there are workarounds for Windows bugs in a variety of different places in the product and in some modes the installer is integrated with the package contents, so it requires the two to be co-built.