Hacker News Reader

This looks like magic. Not sure how it generates native packages for multiple platforms without running on all of them.

The launcher, which is written in Go and C, is precompiled, so it can be reused in all apps. This means that, unlike jpackage, which requires you to build the Windows installer on Windows, the Mac installer on Mac, etc..., you can build for any platform from any platform.

The idea is to fulfill the promise of WORA all the way to deployment. Everything is built and configured in a cross-platform way, and then is deployed as first-class native bundles on each platform.

Thanks Shannah for the tool. I have always thought oracle was so uncool (and shooting in its own foot) not investing in better and easier deployment tool...

I really will definitely try it out for my free-visit builder installer. If it works well like some have said, boy you saved my day ♥. Love

Reply on news.ycombinator.com