perUser InstallScope

[richardmward]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I am unsure if there are technical reasons for this not being possible, but wish to raise it to see if it is a possibility.

Describe the solution you'd like
Could the windows installer support the perUser InstallScope (and I think maybe it'd need the limited InstallPrivileges) wix settings so that a Tauri app would not require admin privileges to install?

Describe alternatives you've considered
I appreciate WebView2 will have it's own limitations, but if that were already installed, could the app itself be less restricted in installation options?

Additional context
N/A

[philipborg]

To quote @FabianLars "The webview installer doesn't need admin anymore", so that hindrance is out of the way.

Yuca965 seems to have had some degree of success getting it running though it required replacing the entire template. Conversation in link.

Seemingly
<Property Id="ALLUSERS" Value="2"/> <Property Id="MSIINSTALLPERUSER" Value="1"/>
was most effective.

[ottosson]

This feels like a fairly common use case and would be nice to have as an option in the tauri-conf.

It would simplify the installation phase if the user only needed to run the installer in a invisible mode and be done with it. No dialogs or prompts.

[drwhorx]

Fairly new to Tauri; I just happened to stumble upon this thread looking for the same issue and I saw a solution was committed fairly recently. Will this be in the next Tauri release or should I try my hand at modifying my own installation to get this functionality sooner?

[lucasfernog]

We did open a PR for it but it's not complete yet, there's some issues to fix. If your app does not use resources or sidecars, I think it might be easy to get that PR changes and throw it in a custom template. We're also working on NSIS.

[drwhorx]

I did just try my hand at a custom template that implemented those changes and assumes per_machine is false, but alas I'm getting bundle errors, presumably from the aforementioned issues to fix. I'll go ahead and wait for your update, since my use case isn't urgent, but if I get my custom template working I'll go ahead and upload it here for anybody else who's curious.