Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: hubstore
Version: 0.1.1
Summary: To Connect Apps With Users
Home-page: https://github.com/pyrustic/hubstore
Author: Pyrustic Evangelist
Author-email: pyrustic@protonmail.com
Maintainer: Pyrustic Evangelist
Maintainer-email: pyrustic@protonmail.com
License: MIT
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        # Hubstore
        <b>  Distribute, promote, discover, install, and run Python desktop applications  </b>
        
        This project is part of the [Pyrustic Open Ecosystem](https://pyrustic.github.io).
        
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        [Installation](#installation) | [User side](#user-side) | [Developer side](#developer-side) | [Demo](#demo)
        
        
        
        ## Overview
        `Hubstore` allows software developers to distribute their apps to users through [Github](https://github.com/about).
        
        Let's visit both sides of the distribution pipeline.
        
        ### User side
        Let's discover Hubstore through a series of screenshots
        
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            <i> A minimalist, clean and elegant graphical user interface </i>
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            <i> Type developer/app-name in the search bar to install an app </i>
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            <i> You can rollback to the previously installed version of an app </i>
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            <i> Hubstore uses <a href="https://github.com/pyrustic/suggestion">Suggestion</a> to implement the autocomplete feature </i>
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            <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pyrustic/misc/master/media/hubstore-apps-running.png" alt="Figure" width="800">
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            <i> Install apps, run apps, and close apps from the same interface </i>
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            <i> Discover new apps through the Promoted feature </i>
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            <i> Built-in bug reporting system to allow users to help improve the apps </i>
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        ### Developer side
        Once you have developed a Python desktop application with or without [Pyrustic Framework](https://github.com/pyrustic/pyrustic#readme), the next goal is to distribute it to end users.
        
        Suppose you already have a Github profile and have already created a repository named as your project name.
        
        To allow users to access your apps through Hubstore, you need to publish your app's distribution package (Wheel) on Github. Concretely, it is a question of doing this:
        - test your project;
        - create the distribution package (Wheel) of your application (the project must have a `__main__.py` entry point);
        - create a `Release` on Github;
        - upload the `Wheel` file of your application as a `Release asset`.
        
        You can use the [Backstage](https://github.com/pyrustic/backstage) project management tool's `build` and `release` commands, respectively, to automate these steps. `Backstage` also manages the versioning of your project.
        
        Then, the user just has to copy and paste the URL of your project's repository into `Hubstore`.
        
        `Hubstore` assigns a default nice image to your app. You can modify the image by editing the configuration file `$APP_DIR/pyrustic_data/hubstore/img.json`. The image must have the following characteristics: `200x80 .PNG`
        
        To `promote` other apps of which you are the author or friend of the authors, modify the configuration file `$APP_DIR/pyrustic_data/hubstore/promotion.json` as follows:
        ```bash
        { 
            "developer/app-name": "A short description",
            "developer/another-app-name": "A short description"
        }
        ```
        
        `Hubstore` is built with `Pyrustic framework` and is available on PyPI. As `Hubstore` uses the standard Python `Wheel` package format, it is compatible with many existing projects.
        
        ## Demo
        [Install](#installation) `Hubstore` in a new Python virtual environment. Open `Hubstore`, accept the default configuration to store data in $HOME, then just type in the search bar `pyrustic/demo` or copy-paste `https://github.com/pyrustic/demo`. You will be asked if you want to install the demo app. Once installed, you can run the app. You can also deliberately crash the demo app: just click the `crash` button. `Hubstore` will intercept the crash and it will offer you to report it.
        
        
        If you are an old user of Hubstore, please delete/move `$HOME/hubstore-apps` and `$HOME/PyrusticData` before you open the new version of `Hubstore`. Yes this new version isn't compatible with the previous one.
        
        Enjoy the demo !
        
        ## Installation
        If you have never installed a package from PyPI, you must install the pip tool enabling you to download and install a PyPI package. There are several methods which are described on this [page](https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/installing/).
        
        ### Install for the first time
        ```bash
        $ pip install hubstore
        ```
        
        I recommend even for the first time to use the next command (upgrade). `Hubstore` needs the latest version of its dependencies.
        
        ### Upgrade
        
        ```bash
        $ pip install hubstore --upgrade --upgrade-strategy eager
        ```
        
        Note: this project is for early-adopters ! Work in progress...
Keywords: application-store,software-management,software-distribution,desktop-application,wheel-compatible,pyrustic,promotion,peer-to-peer
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Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
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