hubstore 0.1.0

To Connect Apps With Users

Overview of the Pyrustic Open Ecosystem

Hubstore

Distribute, promote, discover, install, and run Python desktop applications

This project is part of the Pyrustic Open Ecosystem.

Installation | User side | Developer side

Overview

Hubstore allows software developers to distribute their apps to users through Github.

Let's visit both sides of the distribution pipeline.

The user side

Let's discover Hubstore through a series of screenshots

A minimalist, clean and elegant graphical user interface

Type developer/app-name in the search bar to install an app

You can rollback to the previously installed version of an app

Hubstore uses Suggestion to implement the autocomplete feature

Install apps, run apps, and close apps from the same interface

Discover new apps through the Promoted feature

Built-in bug reporting system to allow users to help improve the apps

The developer side

Once you have developed a Python desktop application with or without Pyrustic Framework, 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 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:

{ 
    "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.

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.

Install for the first time

$ pip install hubstore

Upgrade

$ pip install hubstore --upgrade --upgrade-strategy eager

Note: this project is for early-adopters ! Work in progress...