Making cross-platform GUIs for diverse CLI collections

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Keeping track of my work during my Mozilla Science Lab Fellowship

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Open blahah opened 8 years ago

blahah commented 8 years ago

use Electron
maybe PM2 process management (does this work with electron's requirement for asar? see below
build *nix binaries with the holy build box

Need to look into:

Running/managing external processes in Electron apps:
- http://electron.atom.io/docs/v0.36.0/tutorial/application-packaging/. See child_process.execFile and child_process.execFileSync especially.
- monu https://github.com/maxogden/monu
Bundling arbitrary files, having external dependencies (e.g. Java)

blahah commented 8 years ago

for IceApp I recently managed to automate the process of bundling Java: https://github.com/fathomlabs/IceApp/blob/master/src/makefile

when executing, just set JAVA_HOME to point to the jre directory that's bundled