Publish to new services

[mifi]

• Snap store
• Bintray
• Flatpak (not supported by Electron natively, http://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/electron.html)
• Sign for Mac OS (notarize)
• Mac App Store (Mac App Store Private API Rejection: Electron 5.0.10 electron/electron#20027)
• Windows store

[o-l-a-v]

Suggestions for Microaoft Store, finance EV cert by either:

• Foundraise before publishing. If enough interest and money = Publish.
• Make app from MS store paid/ not free.

[mifi]

Actually when looking now, I cannot find any information anymore about EV certificates being required. I find only a one time fee of 19$, which is something I'm ok with paying.

However it seems to be not so easy to set up something like this because it seems that it needs a lot of manual steps: https://medium.com/@sangamrajpara/publishing-electron-app-to-windows-store-3cadeed26a32
I'm currently using Mac and I want to run this on Github Actions (CI) automatically on git tag. Because manually booting up a windows and going through a lot of manual release steps for every release is something that will cause me to not bother releasing new versions to window store in the future. Currently releasing happens automatically on every git tag.

I'm also a bit scared that the bundled ffmpeg.exe might cause issues with their AppX format (just a hunch.)

If anyone is interested in trying to help setting this up, I'm happy to assist.

[mifi]

It seems that code signing requires either an EV or Code Signing certificate. Both which cost at least 200$ usd / year:

• https://www.electron.build/code-signing
• https://www.electronjs.org/docs/tutorial/windows-store-guide

[reitzig]

What's preventing publishing on snapcraft.io? Do you need assistance?

The snap file currently offered for download needs to be installed in --devmode, which is not ideal.

[mifi]

I added a bounty for the microsoft signing here: https://issuehunt.io/r/mifi/lossless-cut/issues/240

[mifi]

@reitzig Can you test if it's working?

Also, is edge the appropriate channel to use? Can change it

[mifi]

After a lot of hassle I have now manged to publish to Mac App Store and Microsoft Store.

[reitzig]

@mifi Cool, thanks! I was able to install lossless with sudo snap install --edge losslesscut and the app started.

edge is for something like nightly builds, so it's the most frequent and unreliable kind of release. If you want to publish "real" releases, those should go to stable. See also: https://snapcraft.io/docs/channels#heading--risk-levels

[mifi]

Ok I promoted to stable

[ThracianKnight1907]

Hello! Has Lossless Cut been published on flathub officially? I see a package listed and it appears up to date

[FMuro]

Hey, thanks for this piece of software! Really useful to avoid using ffmpeg in the command line. The Ubuntu snap package reports a newer version. I check it's in the edge channel. Is anything preventing you from pushing it to stable? If you need testing, or whatever, please let me know how I can help.

[mifi]

@ThracianKnight1907 it's not publishedd by me officially, but @muelli has been working on the integration, and I have been assisting him.
See here for his source code:
https://github.com/flathub/no.mifi.losslesscut

[mifi]

@FMuro nothing preventing me, it's just that it is another manual step for me, and I don't really test the app on Linux before I release. I bumped it now. If anyone wants to assist the testing and bumping to stable, I'm happy to invite a collaborator to do this.

I bumped now to 3.22.3

[edmundlaugasson]

Looks like Flatpak version of LosslessCut is outdated :(
Also I ask kindly to add Flatpak button with appropriate link to download section at GitHub page and at the end of program main page. For instance, Linux Mint is using Flatpak, but it is supported on many distributions (even not only on Linux).

[muelli]

can you file a bug here, please? :)
I remember there were some issues around downloads that were required at install-time. Maybe these issues have disappeared now and I can give it a spin again. In any case, the other repo is the better place to track this issue.

[edmundlaugasson]

can you file a bug here, please? :)

Thank you for the link, was searching it. The bug is filed for now.

I remember there were some issues around downloads that were required at install-time. Maybe these issues have disappeared now and I can give it a spin again. In any case, the other repo is the better place to track this issue.

Possible issues has to be tested. Using currently AppImage version, which works fine. As soon as Flatpak will be updated, plan to install it, then will see, how it works. Using Linux Mint different versions (19.x, 20.x). Yet would be nice to see also Flatpak installation option among others.

[mifi]

Closing as I'm not going to work on this, but create a new issue if anyone want to work on a publish to a new service