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Title: Provide prebuilt releases
Author: niutech
Created: Sun, 05 May 2024 09:43:09 +0000
State: closed
Please provide prebuilt binary releases for Linux/MacOS/Windows using existing CI by [storing artifacts](https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-workflows/storing-workflow-data-as-artifacts) and uploading them to releases. Thanks!
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From: rodarima
Date: Sun, 05 May 2024 11:27:54 +0000
Why?, what is wrong with building from source?
Providing binaries for all Linux/BSD distros and ensuring they work well would require a lot of work, which is often done by their maintainers. I'm not familiar with MacOS packaging, so I cannot comment on that one. For Windows you'll need Cywgin, so I don't think we can easily package an executable.
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From: niutech
Date: Sun, 05 May 2024 21:32:17 +0000
Why? Because they are already being auto-built as CI by Github Actions, so the added cost is low and the entry threshold for users is significantly lower. For Windows, it's a matter of including *.dll files and for Linux it could be an AppImage.
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From: rodarima
Date: Sun, 05 May 2024 22:15:55 +0000
> Why? Because they are already being auto-built as CI by Github Actions, so the added cost is low and the entry threshold for users is significantly lower. For Windows, it's a matter of including *.dll files and for Linux it could be an AppImage.
Sorry but I don't agree.
Dillo should be distributed via a package manager, the same you would install any other dependency. On MacOS you have Homebrew and on Windows you can add it to a Cygwin recipe. If you want to help, adopt it as a maintaner in any system you like. This way security fixes are propagated quickly without involving us and ABI change rebuilds are managed by the package maintainers.
In the case of a user that wants to try something that is not available as a package yet, I consider the entry point of downloading the source and executing the few commands to build and install Dillo an acceptable threshold.
Shiping TLS code in a AppImage bundle that never gets updates is a no-go.
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