HomeCopy 0.9.0

Installer CLI for building the HomeCopy desktop app from GitHub source.

HomeCopy

HomeCopy is a desktop text relay app for macOS and Windows.

This repository now ships a small Python installer CLI so a machine can pull the latest HomeCopy source from GitHub, build the local executable, and update it later.

Install the installer

pip install HomeCopy

If pip is missing but Python is already installed:

python3 -m ensurepip --upgrade
python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip

On Windows:

py -m ensurepip --upgrade
py -m pip install --upgrade pip

Build the desktop app locally

homecopy install

This command:

• downloads the latest Tommy-OMI/HomeCopy source from GitHub
• builds the platform-specific desktop executable on the current machine
• installs the built app into a local user-owned directory

The installer prefers Python 3.12 or 3.11 for the actual desktop build. If you want to force a specific interpreter:

export HOMECOPY_PYTHON_BIN=/path/to/python3.11
homecopy install

Update to the latest GitHub version

homecopy update

Diagnostics

homecopy doctor
homecopy version

Installed paths

• macOS app target: ~/Applications/HomeCopy.app
• macOS data root: ~/Library/Application Support/HomeCopy
• Windows app target: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\HomeCopy
• Windows data root: %LOCALAPPDATA%\HomeCopy

Source layout

• Common/: shared cross-platform modules
• MacOS/: macOS client and server sources plus macOS packaging script
• Windows/: Windows client and server sources plus Windows packaging script
• src/homecopy_installer/: pip-installed installer CLI