Change requested for AppCenter: binary uploads are not allowed

[cassidyjames]

Change requested for AppCenter: binary uploads are not allowed

[thebaer]

Is there a quick way I can test this requirement with Houston CI? Or will it catch this issue when I push up a release with the CLI build process included?

My idea is to try including the CLI as a git submodule and then following this tutorial to get it to build with Meson. Do you think this is a decent route, or do you know of a better way?

[cassidyjames]

The submodule route sounds sane to me! You might poke one of the other developers of Go apps for elementary OS for pointers, as well. I will try and grab some links to examples. I'm not sure the best way to test, other than testing locally and using Houston CI on GitHub. You could also try submitting your app and checking the build directory at http://packages.elementary.io/testing/pool/main/c/com.github.writeas.writeas-gtk/ for the built version and testing that on a clean elementary OS install, i.e. in a VM.

[thebaer]

Great 👍 I'll give that a shot.

[cassidyjames]

@thebaer here are a couple of apps built for elementary OS with Go, if it helps:

https://github.com/rkoesters/xkcd-gtk

https://github.com/heisantosh/qrshare

[thebaer]

Thanks! I'm taking what I can from those.

By the way, does the built CLI need to be named with RDNN? Or can I have it installed as writeas?

[thebaer]

Closed by #17

[cassidyjames]

@thebaer did you mean to embed the source wholesale versus using a submodule?

[thebaer]

I included the base CLI as a submodule, but embedded its dependencies on purpose, yes. That's because the gb tool I'm using for the build process doesn't support importing libraries from non-GitHub URLs, of which the CLI has a few. So I just embedded them instead of creating new forks of those libraries on a github.com-based repo, updating the CLI import paths, and then having the submodule point to that special CLI branch.

Just wanted to get everything built. I'll clean this up / find a better solution in the future.