liftinstall/README.md
James 68109894f1 Update config files for v7 (#12)
* platform: fix build on Linux and update web-view

* deps: replace xz-decom with xz2 and update deps

* platform: fix regression...

... that prevents the build on Windows

* linux: implement platform-dependent functions

* travis: add macos and windows CI

* travis: use official Rust Docker image

* Update Cargo.lock for new version

* Break apart REST into separate services

This cleans up locking, ensures consistent futures for all endpoints
and enhances code re-use.

* Clean up codebase, fixing minor errors

* Update packages, use async client for downloading config

While this has a hell of a lot more boilerplate, this is quite
a bit cleaner.

* Add explicit 'dyn's as per Rust nightly requirements

* Migrate self updating functions to own module

* Migrate assets to server module

* Use patched web-view to fix dialogs, remove nfd

* Implement basic dark mode

* Revert window.close usage

* ui: split files and use Webpack

* frontend: ui: include prebuilt assets...

... and update rust side stuff

* build: integrate webpack building into build.rs

* Polish Vue UI split

* Add instructions for node + yarn

* native: fix uninstall self-destruction behavior...... by not showing the command prompt window and fork-spawning the cmd

* native: deal with Unicode issues in native APIs

* native: further improve Unicode support on Windows

* travis: add cache and fix issues

* ui: use Buefy components to...

... beautify the UI

* ui: makes error message selectable

* Make launcher mode behaviour more robust

* Fix error display on launcher pages

* Correctly handle exit on error

* Bump installer version
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[Usage Documentation](https://liftinstall.jselby.net/)
- [Quick Start](https://liftinstall.jselby.net/quick-start)
- [License](LICENSE)
[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/j-selby/liftinstall.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/j-selby/liftinstall)
An installer for your application. Designed to be customisable to the core, hookable from external
applications, and have a decent UI.
This is designed to be a more modern interpretation of Qt's Installer Framework, which is hard to develop on,
poorly documented, has a hardcoded package listing format, and isn't supported all that well, with rare updates
and a large list of bugs.
Building
--------
For more detailed instructions, look at the usage documentation above.
There are are few system dependencies depending on your platform:
- For all platforms, `cargo` should be available on your PATH. [Rustup](https://rustup.rs/) is the
recommended way to achieve this. Stable or Nightly Rust works fine.
- Have node.js and Yarn available on your PATH (for building UI components, not needed at runtime).
- For Windows (MSVC), you need Visual Studio installed.
- For Windows (Mingw), you need `gcc`/`g++` available on the PATH.
- For Mac, you need Xcode installed, and Clang/etc available on the PATH.
- For Linux, you need `gcc`/`g++`, `webkit2gtk`, and `libssl`. For Ubuntu 18.04 this would look like:
```bash
apt install -y build-essential libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev libssl-dev
```
In order to build yourself an installer, as a bare minimum, you need to:
- Add your favicon to `ui/public/favicon.ico`
- Add your logo to `ui/src/assets/logo.png`
- Modify the bootstrap configuration file as needed (`config.PLATFORM.toml`).
- Have the main configuration file somewhere useful, reachable over HTTP.
- Run:
```bash
cargo build --release
```
Contributing
------------
PRs are very welcome. Code should be run through [Rustfmt](https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/rustfmt)
before submission.
License
-------
LiftInstall is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License, which can be found in [LICENSE](LICENSE).