LÖVE-Packer: packaging made simple

[Ulydev]

-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.

[MadByte]

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.

[Jack5500]

Electron itself is quite heavy.

[Ulydev]

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).

[NickRock]

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

[Ulydev]

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.

[RagingDave]

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.

[Jack5500]

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

[NickRock]

I've thought about this many times and in the end it always comes down to the more exotic platforms like iOS and Android

Totally agree with Jack5500!

[Ulydev]

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

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.