LÖVE-Packer: packaging made simple
LÖVE-Packer: packaging made simple
-OK. 60mb is too large for you guys, I'm rewriting the app. In the meantime, let's discuss about which functionalities a LÖVE-Packer tool should feature.
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Re: LÖVE-Packer: packaging made simple
Promising.
The download size seems to be a little to large (60MB) for such a limited (feature-wise) tool.
As an user I would expect a filesize not lager then 1-5MB.
The download size seems to be a little to large (60MB) for such a limited (feature-wise) tool.
As an user I would expect a filesize not lager then 1-5MB.
Re: LÖVE-Packer: packaging made simple
Electron itself is quite heavy.
Re: LÖVE-Packer: packaging made simple
Yes, the LÖVE-Packer code is very, very light, but Electron itself is around ~60mb because it is a minimalist version of Chrome. I'd gladly release this as a real web-app (i.e. a javascript app to open in your own browser), but the problem is that you can't call UNIX commands from a regular browser (I'm using ShellJS with Electron).
Re: LÖVE-Packer: packaging made simple
Sadly it doesn't work for me (I use win 7)
It just pops up an error box saying "An error occurred. Please try game " and never finishes making the executable
It just pops up an error box saying "An error occurred. Please try game " and never finishes making the executable
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeooow!!
Re: LÖVE-Packer: packaging made simple
OK. It seems like Electron definitely is the worst solution for this app. I'm going to switch this project to a live website instead of an offline tool.
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Re: LÖVE-Packer: packaging made simple
You could also think about starting a small http server locally on some port and serve the website from there.
This would allow people to run your tool offline on their machine.
Just make people clone your repository and run your tool which starts the server and opens the website in a browser tab.
This would allow people to run your tool offline on their machine.
Just make people clone your repository and run your tool which starts the server and opens the website in a browser tab.
Re: LÖVE-Packer: packaging made simple
I've thought about this many times and in the end it always comes down to the more exotic platforms like iOS and Android. The standard platforms are easily achieveable, which is why there are ~10 tools, which can pack you exactly that. But the is no good solution for iOS and I'm not sure about Android. The best way would be a serverside solution which takes care of the heavy lifting and a local sync client. The server itself could add Platforms in a addon kind of way and just send the packed solutions back to the client
Re: LÖVE-Packer: packaging made simple
Totally agree with Jack5500!Jack5500 wrote:I've thought about this many times and in the end it always comes down to the more exotic platforms like iOS and Android
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeooow!!
Re: LÖVE-Packer: packaging made simple
You're right. An offline tool would always require the user to download the iOS and Android SDKs, which are very heavy. I'm currently porting this tool to an online solution that will handle this server-side.Jack5500 wrote:I've thought about this many times and in the end it always comes down to the more exotic platforms like iOS and Android. The standard platforms are easily achieveable, which is why there are ~10 tools, which can pack you exactly that. But the is no good solution for iOS and I'm not sure about Android. The best way would be a serverside solution which takes care of the heavy lifting and a local sync client. The server itself could add Platforms in a addon kind of way and just send the packed solutions back to the client
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