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textileio / go-textile

[DEPRECATED] Textile is a set of tools and infrastructure for building composable apps and services on the IPFS network
https://textile.io
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npm install -g @textileio/go-textile #848

Closed balupton closed 5 years ago

balupton commented 5 years ago

Installing go-textile at the ipfs camp workshop meant:

  1. Getting users to navigate to our github
  2. Click go-textile repo
  3. Click releases
  4. Download the binary for their machine
  5. Unzip it
  6. Place it somewhere in their path, or execute manually

It would be much nicer if it was as simple as npm install -g @textileio/go-textile

We can use https://github.com/bevry/safeps to identify if textile is already in the PATH, as well as to indentify the version. We can also use this package to fetch go-textile from IPFS, in case the internet is down, as well as to cache the binaries. We can also use this package to perform regular version checks.

carsonfarmer commented 5 years ago

Initial prototype going on here: https://github.com/carsonfarmer/get-go-textile, but is missing functionality and is largely just a fork of https://github.com/ipfs/npm-go-ipfs-dep. It should also be moved over from my personal github, or just used as inspiration for a wholly new project.

sanderpick commented 5 years ago

The binary should live under GOPATH. Why not just make go install github.com/textileio/go-textile work like it should?

carsonfarmer commented 5 years ago

The reason for the above prototype is actually so that you can build JS apps that leverage the binary locally... in the case of an electron app, you'd want the binary packaged with the Electron app, rather than externally (this would allow us to make desktop a pure electron app that could fetch updates to the underlying daemon without having to install a whole new app).

balupton commented 5 years ago

The binary should live under GOPATH. Why not just make go install github.com/textileio/go-textile work like it should?

This also requires that they already have go setup and configured

leshokunin commented 5 years ago

Hey guys, sorry to pop in, but this is actually the most important work there is for us on the roadmap.

Basically, now that we have releases built automatically with CircleCI, I want to make the step to start using Permaweb Writer as easy as possible. Right now, having people download go-textile is a bad hurdle.

I'd love it if we could bundle the Textile node with our release. So that you can just click the program and run it. It'd take care of running the node in the background (check if you already have one), and it'd run.

Would love if it can happen!

carsonfarmer commented 5 years ago

Fixed with https://github.com/textileio/npm-go-textile-dep