TheAssassin
Upload to GH Releases
I'm interested on this and I think I'm early into this game.
I get a rough idea on appimagecraft can automate the AppImage build task easier compared to Travis-CI (I feel the difficulty while contributing to a repo).
Already read two examples provided, what I guess about 'appimage:' section in appimagecraft.yml is the deployment of AppImage. I might missing something else that I concern: will this tool helps on uploading the built AppImage to GH Releases?
BTW, may I know what Python framework you used to develop appimagecraft, and the Python version?
I'm interested on this and I think I'm early into this game.
Good to hear that. And yes, you are.
This project isn't supposed to fully replace Travis CI. Its purpose is mainly to reduce the amount of "script code" a user has to write to build their project, and to streamline and standardize the AppImage creation process.
appimagecraft is still pretty new and not completely stable (.yml format wise). Lots of features could be added (such as support for many other build systems).
I didn't use any specific Python framework, the dependencies are listed in setup.py. I'm developing with Python 3.6 or newer.
Uploading artifacts to GitHub releases and other systems is probably a good idea. However, as this project is merely a shell script generator, we need to use separate tools which can be called from the generated scripts to upload files. You might want to checkout https://github.com/probonopd/uploadtool.
Cool. I will want to participate and contribute to this project in technical side. It'll not in this moment, am busying for my final semester study, soon will be. May I know recently which part can I contribute to?
I hardly have time to work on this project unfortunately right now. This week I plan to spend most time on appimagelint. Perhaps we'll talk once you're ready to get started?
In general, docs would be nice to have, where the user is shown how to use the project, etc. But there's way more to do. There's some structural problems that need to be fixed before adding more code.
I recommend using https://github.com/TheAssassin/pyuploadtool, which does this much better. appimagecraft should focus on uploading. It shouldn't be very hard to add another step to a CI script. pyuploadtool supports GitHub releases very well.