AutoUpdate fails to correctly detect how my vscodium was installed

[Zalnd]

Following this answer to another issue, I think autoupdate is failing to correctly detect how my vscodium was installed: even though the version I have installed isn't the portable one, autoupdate is directing me to the ZIP download link.

It send you to the url because it can't detect how it was installed and so which installer to download and execute.

The update process doesn't support the Portable Mode, same as Visual Studio Code (cf note in https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/portable).

Originally posted by @daiyam in #1994 (comment)

[daiyam]

How was it?

Bug report requires at least:

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: [e.g. Mac OS, Ubuntu 20.04, etc]
• Architecture: [e.g. x64, ia32, arm64]
• Version: [e.g. 1.33.0]
• App Manager: [e.g. Winget, Homebrew, Snap, AUR, RPM, Nix, ...]
• Sandboxed: [e.g. no, Flatpak, Snap]

[Zalnd]

How was it?

Bug report requires at least:

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: [e.g. Mac OS, Ubuntu 20.04, etc]
• Architecture: [e.g. x64, ia32, arm64]
• Version: [e.g. 1.33.0]
• App Manager: [e.g. Winget, Homebrew, Snap, AUR, RPM, Nix, ...]
• Sandboxed: [e.g. no, Flatpak, Snap]

Sorry, I deleted the template and forgot to come back to it.

Desktop:

OS: Windows 11 Home 23H2 22631.4169
Architecture: x64
Version: VSCodium 1.92.2 24228
App Manager: None (installed for all users via VSCodium-x64-1.92.2.24228.msi)

[daiyam]

Can you give the path of the VSCodium.exe?

[Zalnd]

Sure.

C:\VSCodium\VSCodium.exe

[daiyam]

.msi are expected to be installed in Program Files...

Here the patch: https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/blob/master/patches/windows/update.patch

[Zalnd]

.msi are expected to be installed in Program Files...

Here the patch: https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/blob/master/patches/windows/update.patch

Well, in that case, this option should either be blocked or a warning should be given that auto-update will effectively be disabled. What do you think?