Hydraulic Conveyor VS nuitka

So much effort, just to run Xcode remotely. For those of you who want to ship code to macOS from CI (e.g. Electron apps), you should check out my companies product at https://hydraulic.dev/ ... It lets you package, sign, notarize and upload self-updating Mac apps from any OS including Linux. Amongst other things it bundles Sparkle on the fly also, so you don't have to deal with Squirrel, and it can do the same... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

I work on a tool that simplifies deploying desktop apps, and we're looking at what improvements the Electron community might benefit from the most. It'd be great to get feedback on where your biggest pain points are and what you'd find most valuable in such a tool. Source: 7 months ago

You could try experimenting with Hydraulic Conveyor [1]. I built it originally due to the frustrations involved in distributing P2P software during my old Bitcoin days so you won't get any hate from me about that ;) Conveyor can package Electron apps and also do all the Mac specific stuff from any platform including Linux. So it can sign, notarize and staple the app itself, also bundling Sparkle updates as it... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

What do you think is a fair price for a solo dev trialling a small app? I'm asking because my firm makes a competitor to ToDesktop (sort of) [1], and this is a question we often get. It's free for open source apps and cheaper than ToDesktop, but the "I just want to trial an idea and not spend any money on it" use case isn't well supported by this pricing model. One possibility is a trial period, but then how long... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

Apple bundles compared to Flatpaks: • Both use reverse DNS to globally identify themselves, neither actually verifies DNS ownership. • Almost everything is a bundle, except for CLI apps. FlatPaks on the other hand are being auto-converted from previous packaging systems. • Bundles don't have dependencies. In theory they can, but in practice they never do. You depend on macOS/iOS as a unitary platform and bundles... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

This is a good place to mention https://nuitka.net/ which aims to compile python programs into standalone binaries. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

For Python, you could make a proper deployment binary using Nuitka (in standalone mode – avoid onefile mode for this). I'm not pretending it's as easy as building a Go executable: you may have to do some manual hacking for more unusual unusual packages, and I don't think you can cross compile. I think a key element you're getting at is that Go executables have very few dependencies on OS packages, but with Python... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

There is already an AOT compiler for Python: Nuitka[0]. But I don't think it's much faster. And then there is mypyc[1] which uses mypy's static type annotations but is only slightly faster. And various other compilers like Numba and Cython that work with specialized dialects of Python to achieve better results, but then it's not quite Python anymore. [0] https://nuitka.net/ [1] - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

Nuitka deals pretty well with those in general: https://nuitka.net/. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

Have a look at Nuitka, which is a "real" Python compiler into C. It uses CPython in its backend and should be completely compatible to "regular" Python. The compiled code can, but does not have to improve performance. It's probably worth looking into. Source: about 1 year ago