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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 --------- 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>
Protobuf files defining the interface the frontend and backend components use to talk to each other, and how Anki stores some of the data inside its SQLite database. These files are used to generate Rust, Python and TypeScript bindings.