Updating python apps Creating python binaries and updating those binaries is a vital part of a good application. When a user is required to go out of their way to download a seperate binary and install it (or worse, manually overwrite it), it worsens the experience. As such most users would prefer if
News Announcing Pakkly Private Repositories GitHub private repositories are now supported directly in Pakkly. This allows you to use Pakkly to ship your binaries that you don't want to be publically available or risk violating GitHub TOS.
Pakkly Guides Why does my installer get flagged by Windows?! If it's your first time using Pakkly for your Windows app it may surprise you that it gets flagged as 'unrecognized'. This screen will be shown to anyone installing your app: Windows SmartScreenThey can still run it, by clicking More Info, but the way to proceed is not obvious and
Publishing Guides How to Prepare Qt Apps for Release on Linux This is the Linux portion of my complete guide to Qt desktop releases found here(coming soon). If you read the macOS and Windows parts of my guide you may notice that Linux is comparatively simpler. This is because the Linux ecosystem has not decided on a standard code-signing authority,
Publishing Guides How To Sign Qt Apps on Windows for Release You just made your brand spanking new QT app, now how do you sign and deploy it on Windows? A common tool for deploying QT applications on Windows is windeployqt, while that’s great for just deploying your app, how do you actually sign it? windeployqt will then generate
Publishing Guides How to Sign Qt Apps on Mac for Release This is the macOS portion of my complete guide to Qt desktop releases found here(coming soon). macOS is usually the most hands-on experience when releasing an app. The Mac operating system has some features unique to it, and you will need to take them into consideration. Note: During this
Publishing Guides How to create Apple Certificates for App Signing Note: During this guide you will see [email protected] used in the place of an AppleID email. You should replace that with your own AppleID email. Step 1 – Obtain an Apple Developer Account This is the only step that will require payment. An Apple developer account will
