Dev builds have been a handy way of getting quick fixes out to specific users while waiting for the cryptographic stars to align for a new release, but they're currently only available as .exe, .deb, or .rpm. To use a dev build the same way they use the usual CKAN.dmg release, a Mac user would have to download the .exe and insert it into the CKAN.app bundle him- or herself, which is not an accessible task for all users.
Changes
Now a new upload-dmg step is added to deploy.yml that plops the already generated ckan.exe into a CKAN.app into a CKAN.dmg and uploads the latter to s3. After this is merged, a Mac-packaged dev build will be available at this location:
Motivation
Dev builds have been a handy way of getting quick fixes out to specific users while waiting for the cryptographic stars to align for a new release, but they're currently only available as .exe, .deb, or .rpm. To use a dev build the same way they use the usual
CKAN.dmg
release, a Mac user would have to download the .exe and insert it into theCKAN.app
bundle him- or herself, which is not an accessible task for all users.Changes
Now a new
upload-dmg
step is added todeploy.yml
that plops the already generatedckan.exe
into aCKAN.app
into aCKAN.dmg
and uploads the latter to s3. After this is merged, a Mac-packaged dev build will be available at this location: