[Feature Request]: exe binary/build for Windows about vanilla-installer-python HOT 11 CLOSED

Oh, and ideally we'll get @RaptaG to update the scripts, although I might be able to do it in a pinch (but I'm not that experienced with bash scripts lol) maybe a powershell script for windows too idk

Yeah, I can update the Linux/Mac scripts (I have to)

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Why don't we just use pip for that? Most Linux users know what they're doing, and Python comes pre-installed with many Linux distributions, too!

😅 https://github.com/Fabulously-Optimized/vanilla-installer/blob/b7a143ae50b7b612cc0b49379d140a5f36a7d6c0/install/linux.sh#L20

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Oh, and ideally we'll get @RaptaG to update the scripts, although I might be able to do it in a pinch (but I'm not that experienced with bash scripts lol)
maybe a powershell script for windows too idk

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Also, I've recently been compiling with cx-Freeze because for some reason, the GUI doesn't compile correctly under pyinstaller for some reason. In theory, the CLI could be compiled with pyinstaller, but at that point why would we use 2 different compilers :P

The downside of that is we'd have to distribute as a zip file instead of just one file, but it's not a very cluttered zip file (3 or 4 files, not counting the exe) so I don't think that's a problem. macOS app bundles should also be easy with this. Linux is harder, since every single distro uses a different format :P (still thinking about that, and besides the issues already open, that's the biggest roadblock I think).

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@osfanbuff63 When is the project expected to be ready?

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When is it ready to be released

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Depends on some more packaging things I'm working on locally (specifically Linux packaging), and how fast we can get issues like #35, #37, and #27 done - specifically #37 is blocking a release at a minimum, and then various packaging stuff like this and what I mentioned above.

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Linux is harder, since every single distro uses a different format

Why don't we just use pip for that? Most Linux users know what they're doing, and Python comes pre-installed with many Linux distributions, too!

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It's probably worth a thought at least. Thinking of trying to cater to Steam Deck users as well (as people running Linux on that are probably the least experienced Linux users, since it comes pre-installed there), but ultimately I think it'll just serve as a frontend to pip lol

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Why don't we just use pip for that? Most Linux users know what they're doing, and Python comes pre-installed with many Linux distributions, too!

😅

https://github.com/Fabulously-Optimized/vanilla-installer/blob/b7a143ae50b7b612cc0b49379d140a5f36a7d6c0/install/linux.sh#L20

:P
With the scripts, you might just want to git clone anyway as a plus to them is you can use them on non-stable builds, however I believe pip can do this (pip install git+https://github.com/Fabulously-Optimized/vanilla-installer) but not sure if it could build it or not with poetry.

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Given that we have some stuff with Windows builds out now, I'm going to close this.

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