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yusufipek 7e510f8b35 Build an AppImage and a disk image, and publish them
Installing meant cloning the repository and running a shell script, which
is a fair ask of somebody who already has a terminal open and no ask at
all of anybody else. The releases page now carries an AppImage and a disk
image per Mac architecture: a push to master rebuilds a rolling "latest",
a v* tag publishes a version and leaves it there, and the Run button in
the Actions tab raises the number by running scripts/release.sh, which is
the same script and not a second copy of what it does.

Two things in the application had to give for that. A build has no
__main__.py on disk, and an AppImage is mounted somewhere new every run,
so the command a shortcut is registered with cannot go on being this
interpreter and this file; ipc.launcher() answers with the AppImage or
the bundle instead. And a build carries its own libstdc++, which every
process it starts inherits through LD_LIBRARY_PATH and none of them can
live with: ffmpeg, ydotool and wl-copy are the distribution's binaries
built against the distribution's libraries, and AppImageLauncher, which
is what starting the AppImage again goes through, refuses outright.
integrate.py puts that variable back before anything else runs.

Nothing installs itself over an installation that is already there.
install.sh's menu entry, install-mac.sh's login item and the desktop file
AppImageLauncher writes are each recognised and left alone, so trying a
download once does not quietly move the machine onto it. `dikte
integrate` is how you ask for it outright, and --remove takes it back.

The disk image carries an ffmpeg, pinned and checksummed, because macOS
records through one and ships nothing like it. It is signed ad-hoc and
not with an Apple certificate, so a first launch is refused until Open
Anyway and the permissions are asked for again after each update; both
READMEs and the release notes say so.
2026-08-16 15:03:44 +03:00

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name: release
# Three ways in, one set of builds behind them.
#
# a push to master rebuilds the "latest" release, which is the newest
# commit, prerelease, and always at the same download URL
# a v* tag publishes that version and leaves it there
# the Run button raises the version, tags it, and then does the above
#
# The Run button and scripts/release.sh do the same thing, and this runs that
# script rather than repeating it, so the two cannot drift apart.
on:
push:
branches: [master]
tags: ["v*"]
workflow_dispatch:
inputs:
bump:
description: which part of the version to raise
type: choice
options: [patch, minor, major]
default: patch
permissions:
contents: write
# Two pushes in a row would otherwise race each other to replace the same
# "latest" release, and the one that finishes second is not the newer one. Only
# those are cancelled: a run that is publishing a version has already pushed a
# tag by the time it gets there, and cancelling it would leave that tag with no
# release under it.
concurrency:
group: release-${{ github.ref }}
cancel-in-progress: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && !startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/') }}
jobs:
# tests.yml runs the same suite on the same push, and this runs it again
# rather than reaching across to it: what that one guards is the branch,
# what this one guards is the download, and a "latest" built from a commit
# whose tests fail is worse than no latest at all.
test:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
- uses: actions/setup-python@v5
with:
python-version: "3.12"
- run: |
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends -y \
libegl1 libgl1 libxkbcommon0 libdbus-1-3 libglib2.0-0 \
libfontconfig1 libfreetype6 libgssapi-krb5-2
- run: python -m pip install --quiet PyQt6
- run: python -m unittest discover
version:
needs: test
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
outputs:
ref: ${{ steps.decide.outputs.ref }}
tag: ${{ steps.decide.outputs.tag }}
version: ${{ steps.decide.outputs.version }}
prerelease: ${{ steps.decide.outputs.prerelease }}
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
with:
fetch-depth: 0
- name: Raise the version, when that is what was asked for
if: github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch'
run: |
git config user.name "github-actions[bot]"
git config user.email "41898282+github-actions[bot]@users.noreply.github.com"
./scripts/release.sh "${{ inputs.bump }}" --yes
# A push made with the workflow's own token starts no further workflows,
# which is what keeps this from setting itself off again, and is also why
# the tag it just made has to be built by this run rather than the next.
- name: Work out what is being built
id: decide
run: |
read_version() { sed -n 's/^__version__ = "\(.*\)"$/\1/p' dikte/__init__.py; }
case "${{ github.event_name }}" in
workflow_dispatch)
version="$(read_version)"
echo "ref=v$version" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
echo "tag=v$version" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
echo "prerelease=false" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
;;
*)
if [[ "$GITHUB_REF" == refs/tags/* ]]; then
version="${GITHUB_REF#refs/tags/v}"
echo "ref=$GITHUB_SHA" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
echo "tag=v$version" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
echo "prerelease=false" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
else
# Not a version anybody released: the number in the tree, said
# to be ahead of it, and the commit, so that a bug report from
# somebody running "latest" names one.
version="$(read_version)-dev.${GITHUB_SHA::7}"
echo "ref=$GITHUB_SHA" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
echo "tag=latest" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
echo "prerelease=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
fi
;;
esac
echo "version=$version" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
build:
needs: version
strategy:
fail-fast: false
matrix:
include:
# The oldest Ubuntu still offered, because the glibc a build links
# against is the oldest one it will run on, and 22.04's covers every
# distribution released since. Move it up only when it goes away.
- os: ubuntu-22.04
kind: appimage
- os: macos-latest
kind: dmg
# Intel Macs. This runner is the last x86_64 image Actions will
# offer, and it goes away in August 2027.
- os: macos-15-intel
kind: dmg
runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
with:
ref: ${{ needs.version.outputs.ref }}
- uses: actions/setup-python@v5
with:
python-version: "3.12"
# PyQt6 ships Qt itself, but Qt still loads these from the system, and
# the build draws its own icon before it packages anything.
- name: Install the Qt runtime libraries
if: runner.os == 'Linux'
run: |
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends -y \
libegl1 libgl1 libxkbcommon0 libdbus-1-3 libglib2.0-0 \
libfontconfig1 libfreetype6 libgssapi-krb5-2
- name: Install PyQt6 and PyInstaller
run: python -m pip install --quiet PyQt6 pyinstaller
# Only for the builds off master: a tagged build already says the number
# it was tagged with, and rewriting it would be rewriting the tag.
- name: Write the version being built
if: needs.version.outputs.prerelease == 'true'
env:
VERSION: ${{ needs.version.outputs.version }}
run: |
python - <<'PY'
import os, pathlib, re
path = pathlib.Path("dikte/__init__.py")
path.write_text(re.sub(r'^__version__ = ".*"$',
f'__version__ = "{os.environ["VERSION"]}"',
path.read_text(), flags=re.M))
PY
- name: Build
run: ./packaging/build-${{ matrix.kind }}.sh
- uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
with:
name: dikte-${{ matrix.os }}
path: dist/*
if-no-files-found: error
publish:
needs: [version, build]
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
with:
ref: ${{ needs.version.outputs.ref }}
- uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
with:
path: downloads
merge-multiple: true
- name: Publish
env:
GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
TAG: ${{ needs.version.outputs.tag }}
VERSION: ${{ needs.version.outputs.version }}
run: |
ls -la downloads
notes=$(cat <<'EOF'
Linux: download the AppImage, `chmod +x` it, run it. It writes its own
menu entry and starts with you at login the first time it runs, and it
leaves an installation that is already on the machine alone.
macOS: open the .dmg and drag Dikte to Applications. It is not signed
with an Apple certificate, so the first launch is refused: open System
Settings, Privacy & Security, and press Open Anyway. Or, in a terminal:
`xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Dikte.app`. Take the arm64
image for an Apple silicon Mac and the x86_64 one for an Intel Mac.
Recording, transcribing and pasting need the microphone and
Accessibility permissions, which macOS asks for the first time each is
used. It asks again after an update, because an application signed with
no certificate is one macOS has never seen before.
EOF
)
if [ "$TAG" = latest ]; then
# Rolling: the release and its tag are replaced rather than added
# to, so that the download URL stays the one people wrote down.
gh release delete latest --yes --cleanup-tag 2>/dev/null || true
gh release create latest downloads/* \
--title "latest ($VERSION)" \
--prerelease \
--target "$GITHUB_SHA" \
--notes "The newest commit on master, built and not released. For a version somebody meant to publish, take the release below.
$notes"
else
gh release create "$TAG" downloads/* \
--title "Dikte $VERSION" \
--generate-notes \
--notes "$notes"
fi