TiddlyInstall builds real Windows, Linux, and macOS installers from a single HTML file
TiddlyInstall: A universal, reusable, install system
TiddlyInstall is a single HTML file that builds native installers for Windows, Linux, and macOS directly from a GitHub repo, a package, or code written in the browser. It installs each app's real runtime and dependencies into isolated hashed folders, supports 13 languages, and can target Windows XP, glibc 2.17 Linux, and macOS 10.9. No server is required, and every installer shows exactly what it will do before changing anything.
Disk space is cheap; broken installs are not.
- andai
This project is inspired by TiddlyWiki, which is from 2004, and apparently still going!
TiddlyInstall appears to be unrelated (and not by the same author?), and serving a very different function. The only similarity is the "single HTML file" part?
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Previous discussions on TiddlyWiki for context:
Why every programmer should have a Tiddlywiki (2011)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2913670
TiddlyWiki: a local, single-page wiki (2017)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13523660
Tiddlywiki – A non-linear personal web notebook (2018)
- pmarreck
So basically Nix, but more user-friendly except WAY more limited?
- treetalker
> One file, like TiddlyWiki
> TiddlyInstall is a single HTML file. This page carries the installer programs, the runtime catalogue, and all the code that makes, edits and signs them