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tasmota / decode-config

Backup/restore and decode configuration tool for Tasmota
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Release executables for the latest version #45

Closed martymarty004 closed 2 years ago

martymarty004 commented 2 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

Hello, I run in a Windows x64 environment and I used a script to back up my Tasmota devices with decode-config. When a new version was released, I would simply replace the binary file with the newer version, but this time you didn't release the executable builds of the decode-config tool.

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I'd prefer if you kept releasing decode-config with the binary files included in the package.

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curzon01 commented 2 years ago

Basically the binaries are not really binaries, but packages put together with a program named pyinstaller. Unfortunately, pyinstaller does not allow cross-platform creation, so that a virtual/real machine must be started for each platform for each binary creation in order to create a single binary there with pyinstaller.

Since v11.0.0, the release is published as a pypi package, which serves the same purpose as an exe that was created with a lot of effort.

Binaries will no longer be published because the creation is very time consuming and a process that cannot be automated.

To install decode-config install python for your platform and exec python -m pip install decode-config - then you can use decode-config.py the same way as you used the binary.