Installers for all platforms and related fixes #1

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• Windows portable ZIP remains, but has been fixed so that it isn't poisoned by being a web download
• Velopack installer offered on all platforms: Linux AppImage, Windows setup.exe, Mac setup.pkg
• Mac updated to Qt6 which has a modern Chromium as opposed to Qt5 that didn't
• Application log now shown on settings panel
• Automated cross-platform builds via Gitea actions

- Windows portable ZIP remains, but has been fixed so that it isn't poisoned by being a web download - Velopack installer offered on all platforms: Linux AppImage, Windows setup.exe, Mac setup.pkg - Mac updated to Qt6 which has a modern Chromium as opposed to Qt5 that didn't - Application log now shown on settings panel - Automated cross-platform builds via Gitea actions

LeoVasanko added 38 commits 2026-09-23 17:41:02 +00:00

Add Gitea Actions cross-platform release workflow ... ff10c86e84

Build the GUI app on macos/windows/linux host runners on v* tag pushes.
All platform jobs converge on one Gitea release; release.py now reuses an
existing release, skips duplicate assets, and supports --no-dist so only
the linux job uploads the wheel/sdist.

Bundle PyQtWebEngine on macOS and ship the app as a DMG ... 5300fd0c9c

pywebview[qt] no longer depends on PyQtWebEngine, so fresh CI builds
produced a macOS app without its Chromium engine that crashed on launch.
Package MediaHive.app as a compressed DMG instead of zipping the raw
onedir folder; release.py accepts .dmg artifacts.

Checkout with plain git clone; JS actions need node on host runners 99e757bc6f

Fix Windows checkout (powershell, not WSL bash) and install node per-job via uv 3ae4ce9f9f

Use cmd shell for Windows steps; powershell is blocked by execution policy under SYSTEM 67489e05bc

Temporary Windows host probe workflow b231f450bf

Exclude Python.Runtime.dll from UPX (packing corrupts CLR metadata) b01e8a5c3d

Add per-user MSI installer for Windows; strip Mark-of-the-Web in frozen ZIP builds ... 734b7993a2

Files extracted from a downloaded ZIP carry a Zone.Identifier stream and the
.NET Framework CLR refuses to load such assemblies, so pythonnet failed with
'Failed to resolve Python.Runtime.Loader.Initialize'. MSI-installed files have
no MOTW; the winmain strip fixes the ZIP distribution.

Surface WiX tool stdout/stderr on MSI build failure c59040ce52

Remove temporary Windows host probe workflow 6dee65b4c6

Build Windows installer with Velopack instead of WiX ... 3377702e98

vpk runs on the machine's modern .NET runtime (WiX 3.11's .NET Framework
shim fails under the SYSTEM account) and produces a per-user Setup.exe
that needs no runtime on end-user machines.

Probe scoop dotnet-sdk path explicitly (runner service has stale env) 59d2f157eb

Exit fast on Velopack hook args; name ZIP artifact win64-portable ... e8d2c5773a

Velopack runs the app with --veloapp-install/-updated/-uninstall during
those operations; without fast-exit handling the full GUI booted
mid-install (also clobbering config via the first-run setup flow) and
the installer reported hook errors. The post-install launch has no hook
args and still starts the app normally.

Velopack packaging on all platforms with in-app auto-updates ... 303aabc181

- macOS: .pkg installer replaces the DMG; Linux: .AppImage replaces the ZIP
- winmain runs velopack.App() first (proper hook handling) and checks for
  updates in the background; downloads are applied on next launch
- release.py uploads the vpk update feed (releases.<channel>.json, nupkgs)
  so GiteaSource finds updates on the latest release
- guibuild.py bootstraps a .NET runtime into build/dotnet when the runner
  host lacks one

Fix tarfile.open call in dotnet bootstrap (fileobj=) bb88ab7d98

Strip Destination Select page from macOS pkg installer ... c64f54fe0f

Collapse the Velopack-generated distribution.xml to a single install
domain so macOS Installer skips Destination Select, leaving Apple's
minimum pages (Introduction, Install, Summary). Welcome/license/readme/
conclusion pages are already absent (no --inst* options passed).

Add welcome page text to macOS pkg installer ... 37f786f5ed

Tells the user to allow the permission prompts macOS may show during
install and first launch. License page remains absent; Destination
Select was already stripped, leaving Introduction, Install, Summary.

Require system .NET SDK; cache vpk/ffmpeg persistently ... f9002b19a2

Per-build downloads of the dotnet runtime (~80 MB) were slow and flaky
(IncompleteRead killed a CI run). The .NET SDK is now a build-host
prerequisite; vpk and ffmpeg download once into a user-level cache
(~/.cache/mediahive-build, %LOCALAPPDATA%\mediahive-build) that
survives the per-run build dir.

Use platformdirs for config and log locations ... 50420984f1

Config and logs now live in local (non-roaming) app data on Windows
(%LOCALAPPDATA%\mediahive) instead of roaming. Existing files in the
old roaming location are left untouched; no migration.

Top-level imports; catch only expected exceptions ... e514829737

velopack/tracerite/fastapi-vue are always available in the GUI build, so
drop the in-function import guards. The update checker now catches only
RuntimeError (not a Velopack install: dev/portable) and OSError
(network). Build script and PyInstaller spec use platformdirs for the
persistent tool cache.

Fix doubled platformdirs paths; pick newest dotnet runtime ... 3142bc2cb2

appauthor=False/opinion=False avoids mediahive\mediahive\Cache style
paths on Windows. fetch_dotnet now probes all known dotnet locations and
selects the highest Microsoft.NETCore.App major, requiring the version
vpk's TFM targets (10) — PATH on the Windows CI runner resolves to a
runtime-only .NET 8 while scoop holds the SDK 10.

Keep both macOS install domains (system and per-user) ... 832da6c315

Collapsing <domains> to localSystem did not remove the Destination
Select page (Installer shows it regardless) and only removed the
~/Applications option. Restore Velopack's default of both domains.

Make macOS pkg per-user only (~/Applications) ... 65fdae1546

System installs land in /Applications where Velopack's UpdateMac may not
be able to replace the .app during auto-update. Restricting the
distribution domains to currentUserHome skips the Destination Select
page and needs no admin rights; the postinstall script's sudo prefixes
are dropped since it already runs as the installing user.

Lowercase update-feed nupkgs in release assets ... 01c353502c

MediaHive-*-full.nupkg sorted between the capitalized Setup/AppImage
user downloads on the Gitea release page. Renamed to mediahive-* they
group with the wheel/sdist below the downloads; feed manifests
(RELEASES, releases.*.json, assets.*.json) are patched to match.

Simplify artifact names: -macos-setup.pkg, -linux-setup.AppImage ... 5f3ba47098

Arch markers dropped except win64: macOS builds are arm64-only and we
ship a single Linux flavor.

Rewrite platform naming around a single descriptor ... ff493506ba

Replace _platform_zip_suffix() and its overrides with a _Platform
NamedTuple (tag/rid/dist_dir/icon/main_exe/setup_ext) plus
setup_artifact_name(). create_zip() is Windows-only in practice, so it
is now create_portable_zip() with a fixed -win64-portable.zip name
instead of a generic name patched by string replace.

Simplify release workflow; node and .NET are runner prerequisites ... f078e9bec0

Drop the per-job uv-installed nodejs-wheel steps — runner hosts must
have git, uv, node/npm and the .NET SDK installed system-wide.

Upload only the consumed feed files; uniform nupkg names ... 039824f236

release.py no longer uploads the legacy RELEASES and assets.*.json
manifests — the in-app updater reads only releases.<channel>.json plus
the nupkg it references. The Windows feed nupkg gains its -win channel
marker (vpk omits it for the legacy default channel), so all platforms
are uniformly mediahive-{ver}-{channel}-full.nupkg. The -full suffix is
Velopack's asset type and stays.

Fix macOS pkg post-processing breaking the payload ... 3711d3dd3c

pkgutil --expand-full flattens the component payload to loose files that
--flatten cannot repack, producing a pkg Installer accepts but installs
nothing from (also breaking the postinstall auto-open). Use nested
regular --expand: product for the Distribution domains edit, component
for the postinstall sudo-prefix removal.

Add Diagnostics section to settings: version, browser engine, log view ... aeb6958aab

For triaging webview rendering issues without devtools: settings panel
now shows app version, the webview user agent, and the application log
(pre-wrap, 80ch, scrollable, refreshable). New endpoints /api/version,
/api/log; client-side JS errors are captured globally and posted to
/api/client-log (client-errors.log in the log dir).

Tolerate expanded-component pkg layout on newer macOS ... 9e0ccb13bd

pkgutil --expand may yield the component as an already-expanded
directory rather than an archived file; handle both. List the expanded
contents in the error message if the layout is unexpected.

macOS: PyQt6-WebEngine backend (modern Chromium ~122, variant A) ... aea73ccd36

PyQt5's QtWebEngine is Chromium 87, too old for aspect-ratio and other
modern CSS. Qt6 WebEngine tracks current Chromium.

macOS: WKWebView system backend (variant B) ... 5b40e306d1

Default pywebview backend on macOS, no bundled Qt/Chromium — much
smaller installer and updates.

Revert "macOS: WKWebView system backend (variant B)" ... f27bb4e7f3

This reverts commit 5b40e306d1.

Rely on pywebview[qt] for Qt6 on all Qt platforms ... 508dae02b3

Its qt extra already pins QtPy + PyQt6 + PyQt6-WebEngine; the explicit
Darwin lines were redundant. Qt5 would only come from the unused qt5
extra.

Merge installers: Velopack packaging on all platforms ... 0a0c812efd

Per-user installers with in-app auto-updates (Velopack Setup.exe / macOS
pkg / Linux AppImage) built by the Gitea release workflow. macOS GUI
switched to Qt6 WebEngine (modern Chromium). Diagnostics section in
settings (version, browser engine, log view, client error capture).

Diagnostics panel: log view only, full width ... 2c4baf693c

Drop the version/browser rows; the log pre now fills the layout width
instead of a fixed 80ch that overflowed once the scrollbar appeared.

Live log view over WebSocket, full log, scroll pinned to bottom 603884c5a2

LeoVasanko merged commit 1477c240a1 into main 2026-09-23 17:41:21 +00:00

LeoVasanko deleted branch installer 2026-09-23 17:41:21 +00:00

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