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iQuail Overview

Easy to use cross-platform installer & updater

iQuail stands for "Installer quail"

Our goal is to make deploying and updating desktop applications as simple as possible

Today you can deploy a simple solution in less than 10 lines

iQuail is currently in development stage, everything is subject to change

Current features

  • Windows and Linux compatibility
  • Install and uninstall an application (Add launch shortcut and register program on the system)
  • Many ways to deploy and/or update your application:
    • Github release
    • FTP server
    • Embedded in installer (offline installer)
  • Graphical user interface
  • Scriptable user interface
  • Configuration management
  • Custom scriptable install/uninstall actions
  • Configurable "Force update" or "Ask for update"

Installation

  1. Install python 3.6 https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-360/
  2. Install Tkinter (if its not already in python3) on debian/ubuntu: sudo apt-get install python3-tk on fedora sudo dnf install python3-tk
  3. Install iQuail python3 -m pip install iQuail

Using iQuail

Currently everything is subject to change,

You can still begin learning by examples

To build a iQuail installer run iquail_script.py --iquail_build

How to sign? https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/wiki/Recipe-Win-Code-Signing

Short time goals

  • Integrity verification and updating only modified data
  • Building a versioning server
  • Using iquail to update solutions which already have an installer .msi / .deb / setup.exe / .rpm files
  • Mac OS support

Support

If you find iquail interesting and if you would like to use iquail for your project, feel free to contact us by email: [email protected] or by creating a github issue we will be happy to help you and make iquail meet your needs.

License

This project is licensed under the Mozilla Public License 2.0 - see the LICENSE file for details

Big thanks to PyInstaller project, our project would have never been possible without them: https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller