Request for MSI installer for Windows

[smjoshiatglobus]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Thank you for providing the Windows binaries package hoverfly_bundle_windows_amd64. A user needs to download and add the location to Path. It will be nice to have another option of an MSI installer.

Would you be open to bundle the package into a Microsoft Installer (MSI) file? I could do it successfully using the command-line WiX Tool and will be happy to share my script and the configuration wxs file.

The installer I created has these features:

• No admin privileges needed for installation.
• Default installation in user's AppData/Local/Programs/SpectoLabs/Hoverfly folder, which can be overridden.
• Appends the location of installation folder to the user's path environment variable
• Provides 'Uninstall' shortcut
• Check for newer version during upgrade

Describe the solution you'd like
Make MSI files available when creating a new release.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Current workflow of downloading and unzipping executables with manual set up of paths.

Additional context
Add any other context or screenshots about the feature request here.

[tommysitu]

Could be a dump question: does it require windows environment to build the msi using your script?

[smjoshiatglobus]

Correct, building MSI needs Windows environment. I have done it using windows-latest image on GitHub successfully in the past... checkout code, install WiX, execute powershell script to build an executable for a Golang project, then bundle required files in an MSI.

[tommysitu]

cool, feel free to share your script, I can try setting up a windows pipeline on circleci to run the msi build

[smjoshiatglobus]

Unzip this archive to see build.ps, Product.wxs, and sample_workflow.yml files. GitHub won't let me upload the original files, so had to zip them.
hoverfly_msi.zip