Create Chocolatey package for pympress (I've done so)

[ComFreek]

Chocolatey is a package manager for Windows, e.g. users can install Firefox with running choco install firefox (or short cinst firefox -y).

I've created such a package, bot not yet submitted anywhere. You can find it here: https://github.com/ComFreek/chocolatey-packages/tree/master/pympress. Locally I can now just run cinst pympress -y and it installs just fine. Consequently, cuninst pympress uninstalls it cleanly.

Open questions would be:

• What's your stance on this?
• Usually Chocolatey packages have a logo. Do you have one?
• Should the package install the version with or without VLC? Should this be user-configurable? (e.g. cinst pympress -y -params "vlc" for the version with VLC, default to without)
  (NB: At the moment it lets Chocolatey automatically handle the choice between 32 and 64 bit.)
• May the package include the binaries in package itself? Advantages are listed here
  
  In case with VLC: IANAL, can we do this?
• Windows installer should put pympress on PATH #107 should be fixed before submitting the package; for now patched in Chocolatey package

[Cimbali]

I did not know about Chocolatey, but it’s interesting. I don’t actually want to take responsibility for more than releasing to github and pypi, so if you want to maintain that package up-to-date, that’s fine by me.

I suppose the repository takes in the usual windows binary installers? In which case you can probably just download those from the github releases. These packages include the binaries directly and do not download anything, and you can redistribute them without worries under our GPL 2 license. I still haven’t managed to automate the process of building the windows packages I’m afraid.

The pympress logo is
(Maybe we could re-design that some day, but for now this is what we’re using.)

I think there is no need to bundle VLC with pympress in a package manager, last I tested the detection of a system-wide VLC worked fine on windows. You could test choco install pympress vlc and check that pdf with videos work.
If there is such a concept, you could make VLC an optional dependency of pympress.

[ComFreek]

so if you want to maintain that package up-to-date, that’s fine by me.

Yes, I like this software. I like Chocolatey. Let me connect them 🎆

I suppose the repository takes in the usual windows binary installers? In which case you can probably just download those from the github releases.

Exactly -- in an automated way already by querying the GitHub API for the latest (non-draft and non-prelease) release.

The pympress logo is

Cool! Never seen that. You might want to include that on the website and in the README at the top somewhere 😄

You could test choco install pympress vlc and check that pdf with videos work. If there is such a concept, you could make VLC an optional dependency of pympress.

I'll do!

[ComFreek]

Also @Cimbali, is it inteded that the current x32 release for Windows only has 128 KB?

Compare the file sizes. This seems suspicious to me.

[Cimbali]

It looks suspicious indeed. I’m trying to see if I can re-build pympress with a more recent setup. So far I’ve been using PyGobjectWin32 but this means I’m stuck with python 3.4 (which I don’t even have at hand anymore).

[ComFreek]

The Chocolaty package is done! It now automatically adds Pympress to PATH as a patch for #107. I'll wait until your investigation of this 128 KiB installer, though.

Reproducible builds via Travis would be awesome (and time-consuming to set up), but I am sure you know this 😄

[Cimbali]

I think we can close this since everything is on Chocolatey now. #107 and a less fishy x86 binary to appear in future binary releases. Thanks for helping distribute pympress!

[ComFreek]

@Cimbali FYI: The latest pympress version on Chocolatey is 1.4.0 (not the current 1.4.1). I am afraid I cannot push the more recent one to Chocolatey due to this chocolatey.com server bug, which affects packages with a bigger file size. Reportedly, people are working on this bug, but I don't think we could get any results in a foreseeable future.

Edit (2019-10-31): 1.4.1 is now pushed to Choco. I now removed the binaries from being embedded in the package, which prevents the issue. I'll embed them again once the Choco server bug is fixed.