migrates Anki Desktop packaging from the legacy
NSIS/uv-based installer to [BeeWare
Briefcase](https://briefcase.readthedocs.io/). This branch integrates
work from many related issues and PRs to deliver cross-platform native
installers (MSI on Windows, .app on macOS, PyInstaller on Linux) with
code signing, notarization, and file association support.
## Integrated PRs
- #4585 — Set up Briefcase
- #4596 — Add Briefcase icons
- #4598 — Handle Briefcase file associations
- #4601 — Add Briefcase app permissions
- #4609 — Customize Briefcase's MSI installer
- #4616 — Set up Briefcase code signing and notarization
- #4618 — Fix Briefcase packaging for x86 Macs
- #4623 — Customize Briefcase's Linux template
- #4627 — List required Debian packages for Briefcase installer
- #4630 — Update Briefcase's Windows template
- #4631 — Rewrite Linux install/uninstall scripts for PyInstaller
- #4638 — Use PyInstaller on Linux
- #4645 — Update installer docs
- #4654 — Disable Briefcase's universal builds for macOS
- #4672 — Deal with existing NSIS installations in MSI installer
- #4676 — Remove duplicate Briefcase icons
- #4677 — Tweak Linux scripts for new installer
- #4709 — Add anki-console.bat to Briefcase's Windows package
## Related Issues
- #4557 — Evaluate BeeWare Briefcase for Anki packaging and distribution
- #4678 — Support native Windows ARM64 builds for Briefcase
- #4688 — Linux installer: migrate to PyInstaller and rewrite install
scripts
- #4689 — Investigate startup performance with Briefcase
- #4690 — Specify required Linux system packages for Briefcase
- #4691 — Investigate Windows ARM64 support with Briefcase
- #4692 — Test on Linux ARM with Briefcase
- #4693 — Separate ARM and Intel macOS releases
- #4694 — Update developer documentation for Briefcase installer
- #4695 — Support upgrade/downgrade with the Briefcase installer
- #4696 — Update user documentation for new installer
- #4702 — Update Briefcase's Windows template with upstream security fix
and OS version check
- #4703 — Follow-up tweaks to Linux install/uninstall scripts
## Related PRs
- #4619 — Enable Windows ARM64 support
- #4632 — Release action
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Co-authored-by: Abdo <abdo@abdnh.net>
Co-authored-by: Andrew Sanchez <andrewsanchez@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Fernando Lins <1887601+fernandolins@users.noreply.github.com>
* Add AnkiHub section to preferences screen
* Add short intro for AnkiWeb and AnkiHub to syncing section
* Add AnkiHub login screen
* Implement login methods in backend
* Set minimum dialog width
* Add missing colon
* Respect the ANKIHUB_APP_URL env var
This is used by the add-on.
* Simplify login error reporting
* Fix from_prefs_screen not passed to subcall
* Add missing ankihub_pb2 import
* Install AnkiHub add-on after sign-in
* Avoid .exec()
* Update ftl/core/sync.ftl
Co-authored-by: Damien Elmes <dae@users.noreply.github.com>
* Split translation string
* Support login by username/email
* Fix entered username/email not being passed back to on_done
* Remove unused import
* Move to 'Third-party services' section
* Tweak login dialog's heading
* Remove 'third-party' from intro text
* Tweak copy
* Prefix profile keys
* Tweak strings
* Remove description from login dialog
* Remove signup links
* Clear credentials in ankihub_logout()
* Call .adjustSize()
* Title Case
* Add padding to third-party services, and fix tab order from other PR
* Accept iterables as inputs to backend methods
* Shift add-on check to backend; use new endpoint
The new endpoint will return info on a suitable branch if found,
instead of returning all branches. This simplifies the frontend code,
and means that you can now drop support for certain versions without
it also remotely disabling the add-on for people who are running one of
the excluded versions, like in
https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/prevent-add-ons-from-being-disabled-remote-stealthily-surreptitiously/33427
* Bump version to 23.09
This changes Anki's version numbering system to year.month.patch, as
previously mentioned on https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/use-a-different-versioning-system-semver-perhaps/20046/5
This is shaping up to be a big release, with the introduction of FSRS and
image occlusion, and it seems like a good time to be finally updating the
version scheme as well. AnkiWeb has been updated to understand the new
format, and add-on authors will now specify version compatibility using
the full version number, as can be seen here:
https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/3918629684
* Shift update check to backend, and tidy up update.py
* Use the shared client for sync connections too
- Dropped the protobuf extensions in favor of explicitly listing out
methods in both services if we want to implement both, as it's clearer.
- Move Service/Method wrappers into a separate crate that the various
clients can import, to easily get at the list of backend services and
their correct indices and comments.
This is of limited usefulness at the moment, as it doesn't help consumers
of the public API.
Also removed detached comments from the included comments.
Will be handy to use it in our other scripts in the future too - thanks
Rumo!
Results of benchmarking ./run before and after these crate splits:
- Touching a proto file leads to a slight increase: about +90ms
- Touching an rslib file leads to a bigger decrease, as there's less to
recompile: about -700ms
And ./ninja test is even better: about +200ms and -3800ms.
A couple of motivations for this:
- genbackend.py was somewhat messy, and difficult to change with the
lack of types. The mobile clients used it as a base for their generation,
so improving it will make life easier for them too, once they're ported.
- It will make it easier to write a .ts generator in the future
- We currently implement a bunch of helper methods on protobuf types
which don't allow us to compile the protobuf types until we compile
the Anki crate. If we change this in the future, we will be able to
do more of the compilation up-front.
We no longer need to record the services in the proto file, as we can
extract the service order from the compiled protos. Support for map types
has also been added.
