distribute desktop app

[lydavid]

When we ./gradlew desktop:app:assembleDist, it will generate:

• desktop/app/build/distributions/app-1.0-SNAPSHOT.tar
• desktop/app/build/distributions/app-1.0-SNAPSHOT.zip

Extracting these, and running them, we do not see a .db file in its directory.

[lydavid]

https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/java_library_distribution_plugin.html
seems like we already have access to this

[lydavid]

https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/application_plugin.html#sec:the_distribution

[lydavid]

Because we build this in GHA ubuntu-latest, it will crash on other OS:

Caused by: org.jetbrains.skiko.LibraryLoadException: Cannot find libskiko-macos-arm64.dylib.sha256, proper native dependency missing.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/70150484

[lydavid]

Example releasing on:
- windows-latest
- macos-latest
- ubuntu-latest
https://github.com/JFormDesigner/markdown-writer-fx/blob/62bab275f8b32ced1aae80b64ff3389c7c4f5e8c/.github/workflows/release.yml#L13
uses https://github.com/softprops/action-gh-release
when a tag is created (by semantic release), we can have a separate workflow that assembles the desktop distributions on each of the platforms, and add it to the recently created tag's release

[lydavid]

Does https://github.com/semantic-release/semantic-release support pushing assets to the same tag from multiple jobs?

[lydavid]

https://badass-jlink-plugin.beryx.org/releases/latest/