[Timothysit]

What changes for app users

• Update to vX in the version window (click the version number in the toolbar). It downloads the new version, closes MEA-NAP, installs it and reopens it, in about a minute. No browser is involved, so there's no Chrome "dangerous download" warning and no Mac "Open Anyway" step. Settings and results are kept.
• Also offer development builds (a tick box, off by default) offers every merge to main once its apps are built, usually within about half an hour.
• Users on 1.13.0 need to download this version once by hand. After that, updates happen in the app.

How

• meanap.updates.check_app picks this computer's file from the release: Windows, Apple-silicon Mac (also when an Intel build runs under Rosetta) or Intel Mac. With development builds ticked, it also considers dev pre-releases that already have that file attached.
• New module meanap.app_update:
  • Download: checks the file's size and GitHub's SHA-256, and supports cancelling.
  • Install:
    • Windows runs the installer with /SILENT /RELAUNCH=1. meanap.iss has a new [Run] entry for that relaunch.
    • Mac runs a shell script that waits for the app to quit, copies the new .app out of the .dmg, swaps it in with two renames, and reopens it. If anything fails it puts the old app back.
  • Report: the next start says how the update went, using pending-update.json.
• Falls back to the download page when the Mac app is running from Downloads or the .dmg (translocated) or its folder isn't writable, or when the release's files aren't built yet.
• CI:
  • dev-build.yml calls desktop-app.yml (now workflow_call) to attach apps to each dev pre-release.
  • It deletes the app files from all but the newest 5 dev builds; the tags and notes stay.
  • The tagging concurrency moved to the tag job, so the about 20-minute app builds don't delay the next merge's tag.

Tests

• python/test_desktop_app.py: 27 tests, all passing. They cover:
  • which release and file the check picks;
  • download size and checksum checks, and cancelling;
  • the Mac script run for real, with stand-ins for hdiutil, ditto and open, in both the success and the put-back-on-failure case;
  • the Windows installer arguments;
  • the startup report;
  • the dialog buttons.
• Not yet tried on a real Windows PC or Mac. First real test: install 1.14.0 by hand, tick development builds, then update to the next dev build.

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