Integration into system and installers

Is your feature request related to a problem? ct.js is a pretty self-contained app, but without additional efforts, setting it up may be cumbersome or problematic for most users. This issue includes talks on installers, integration with systems, and shell usage.

Pros:

• Much better onboarding, which is especially important for educational institutions.
• Less fuzz for users to update ct.js (in case itch.io app is not installed).
• A couple clicks to integrate into menus and bind extensions.

Describe the solution you’d like

Distribution and installation:

• Create an installer for Windows (e.g. an NSIS one) #349

• Write an install procedure for Mac (needs research)

• Create an AppImage for Linux

• Create a flatpak

  • Publish in Flathub

• Bake packages for popular Linux system package managers (aur, rpm, deb)

• Integrate everything into build pipeline (Travis CI)

General usage:

• Open a project by double-clicking a .ict file. Note that ct.js is single-instance only.
• Add options into ct.js settings to bind itself with its extensions

Optional solutions

• Chocolatey for Windows
• Steam?!?!?!?!

Additional context

Feel free to discuss the topic and create detailed issues about solving separate tasks.

[naturecodevoid]

I’ve made a branch for the python installer here.

I’ll probably make a pr tomorrow when it’s mostly ready.

Edit: https://github.com/ct-js/ct-js-site/blob/master/src/_data/downloads.js seems like another good example

[CosmoMyzrailGorynych]

The latest releases at Github are always at https://github.com/ct-js/ct-js/releases/latest

The latest version number is received from itch, at https://itch.io/api/1/x/wharf/latest?target=comigo/ct&channel_name=${channel} Usage example is at https://github.com/ct-js/ct-js/blob/develop/src/riotTags/project-selector.tag#L182

https://ctjs.rocks/download/ currently points to github releases (:

Windows style (but cross-platform)

Sounds great!