First, make the script versioning system able to detect release candidates.
Otherwise, we willn't be able to use the "GIMP.GIMPPreview" identity (that
was previously tied to GIMP_UNSTABLE var, which is not set to 1 on RCs).
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This also fixes the pseudo-revision trick when we have a zeroed micro version,
which is the case of the release candidates and the first stable version.
The versioning now have a different aproach from 8c99efd7.
This adds a bit more verbosity to the installer script while omitting some.
The version params (e.g. gimp_version) are dropped since now config.h is
mandatory (this is a natural conclusion of the generation of assets).
Note that we still need the iso_639.mo files at runtime. Only the XML
files don't need to be parsed anymore at runtime (they are parsed at
build-time now).
This makes the bundling script an "extension" of the building script, similar
to what Cmake-based projects does on Windows. By the way, this is inline with
the recent changes which clarified that bundling is just a finalization of the
building process when a bundle is aimed. See: d09a2a6f, 2dc6f411 and 9d86492b
Despite the good intentions, 4f965557 makes Debian contributors who
follows gimp-web-devel instructions to download more deps than needed
and makes unclear what are the crossroad deps. Let's fix it.
This makes crossroad and msys2 scripts clone without the "_" prefix, which
will improve quality of life of most contributors that just clone them.
Just for consistency, also remove the "_" prefix from other pices of code.
The original script required a specific WinSDK version. Now, it autodetects.
This is useful if we need to move to another runner and welcome locally too.
Also, downloading the arm64 artifact was mandatory to get a x64 msix, which
is silly. Now, packagers are free to package to either arm64 or x64 alone.
This is useful locally but could be useful on CI too when some arch fail(?).
It's perfectly reasonable that someone can misunderstand the scripts info in
gimp-web-devel and try to run them not from git root but from their dirs. So,
let's add that possibility as a fallback (a pretty natural one by the way).
Also, change the error message to direct contributors to gimp-web-devel.
The ARTIFACTS_SUFFIX is being dropped on building scripts because:
1) This will make possible to further simplify Installer scripts in other commit
2) There is no script that uses multi-arch _build/_install at same time on CI
However, there are two use cases: to build Debian and flatpak; and, on Win,
to build on CLANGARM64 and CLANG64 (?). But probably they are pretty niche.
I suppose that people who build on Debian (or other dev-oriented distro)
willn't want to mantain deps in two sys prefixes (pkg and GNOME runtime)
+ two gimp prefixes (out of sandbox and sandbox) due to huge storage use.
Why someone would want to build with emulation on Win ARM64 I don't know.
Anyway, people that know how to do this stuff probably can change the .sh.
3) When building locally, the contributor doesn't need to know the arch at all.
Indeed, without this suffix, the scripts are inline with gimp-web-devel and
prevent some first-sight confusion when reading them that I've seen on IRC.
4) These arch suffixes can be understood as '_install-*' being distributable
which is not true. So, without this suffix we could make more clear
what is a package (when GitLab fix the glob bug in 'expose_as' someday).
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Despite .gitlab-ci.yml not being a script, it needed to be touched too
because cross scripts depends on Debian jobs due to gimp-data MR.
The numbering is now inline with actual the order of jobs on CI
to make easier to understand what the numbers represent.
To understand why bundling is number 2 see: d09a2a6f and 2dc6f411
The storing of Windows scripts was changed to make easier to
call them, to better convey that they work outside CI and
to be consistent with other build/ subdirectories.
As decided in #10922, 32-bit will be tolerated in 3.0 series because of TWAIN.
So, let's package only the bare minimum files to the 32-bit TWAIN plug-in work.
This reduces the final installation size by approximately 215MB.
It's a common pratice to tell the user what version is being installed
even if this is somewhat obvious (the user opened the installer, he
should know it). Many installers do this and Win MSIX installer too.
However, there is no sign in our Installer about what version is
being installed (the reused splash/intro image doesn't count because
it isn't always different at each micro or revision, and text is small).
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To accomplish that feature, the Inno langs needed to be patched since
Inno actually forbidden to use that feature when we have a Welcome page.
https://groups.google.com/g/innosetup/c/w0sebw5YAeg
But 'UninstallAppFullTitle' from the following langs couldn't be patched:
- Japanese
- Lativian
There are two approaches regarding the icon for Windows installers .exe:
1) same icon as the app: this give more identity, but creates confusion if
you saved the installer in the same dir of the installed app shortcut.
This approach is also confusing in the task bar (e.g.: running GIMP
stable while installing GIMP unstable);
2) generic icon (e.g. a box, a cd) provided by the tool: more generic if
you downloaded two installers generated by the same tool (ours is Inno)
I choose a middle ground and created a icon with: the app icon and an
"installer" symbol (a package box), which conveys the best of two words.
This also fixes the Inno inborn bug of the unninstaller with install icon.
After running almost all the py plug-ins, I noticed that few py modules and
pkgs are used to justify the need of a slightly faster build time with .pyc.
In the actual bloated status (with all .pyc), lib/python* is about 260 MB big.
With the bare minimum .pyc after the tests above, python*/ is less than 90.
So, let's purge the .pyc at bundling time (I'm not reinventing the wheel,
Krita do this too), which reduces the .zip bundles (so the Inno and MSIX
installs) in 170MB, the Installer .exe in 45MB and MSIX download in 60MB.
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Let's also disable any .pyc generation, since GIMP installed with Inno in the
system-wide (aka admin) mode or installed with MSIX both doesn't handle well:
py plug-ins work but have CLI errors, unlike Inno user-mode and .zip bundle.
Actually, the Language dialog is always displayed, which is not too good since:
1) This is inconsistent: the install mode dialog (to choose user or system)
appears before using the system lang automatically. Even if Inno fix this:
2) This is tiring: depending on the context, the user can see up to 5 dialogs:
SmartScreen (1) > Install mode (2) > installer lang (3) > dev warning (4)
> SetupMutex (5): https://groups.google.com/g/innosetup/c/bkRtnHz2ygg
3) This is redundant: even if only 2 and 3 are displayed, why 2? Inno will
auto select the sys lang, which the user understand to search GIMP for PC;
4) This is confusing: even the lang dialog message being clear, some users
genuinely conclude that the selection will carry over to GIMP install like
the old Adobe CS installer (#5515). !1628 makes more clear that not, but
reducing confusion even more is a welcome plus considering points above.
So, let's use 'ShowLanguageDialog=auto'. That option ensures that the dialog
will NOT appear if the sys lang have a translation present in the installer,
which matches what every program does and even installers like Inkscape one.
If the lang isn't included in the installer, the dialog WILL appear so the
user can choose one which he is more fluent, being is a nice middle ground.
This solves an old bug that makes Inno report GIMP as being almost 1.8GB,
which is not true (it's 1.3GB at most). That was probably caused by the
overuse of components intersections (e.g.: gs + gimp, py + deps), which
Inno does not handle well (sometimes it not even displayed the cmp size).
TWAIN component is still reporting a wrong size since it's a totally
different beast, it will be fixed later.
Following c6634d66 and 09d6402a
These files are too small and aren't reused so no point keeping them modular.
Also, with them inside .iss we reduce the clutter in the installer/ folder.
Despite that folder mysteriously not being mandatory on Linux
(the contents are different), on Windows (in PCs without MSYS2)
this is required by a warning. So, partially reverts c808d13b
The gimp.org main page was being used as the updates URL but the
downloads page is more direct, avoiding confusion with news or with
the stable big red button (remember: we also have dev installers).
Following e93e0f49
This defaults 'Segoe UI' for Installer texts and for license's body. This
font is still used as the default in Windows 11 and even in online docs.
We are also bumping to 9 pt as outlined in the final Win32 guidelines:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/uxguide/vis-fonts
I've done microscopic pixel checks and confirmed that this produces a Win32
compliant design, which renders kerning and spacing equal as 'Win + R' and
UWP Notepad (please note that some "legacier" Win32 apps renders different)
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Also, change from Lucida Console to 'Consolas' (default console font since
at least Win8). Today it is Cascadia Mono but not included with Win 10.
This makes the output more complete but at the same time less
polluted regarding the bundling scripts (base, deps and sym).
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Also, packaging scripts (inno and msix) were touched as consequence
of experiments about drop bundling, for saving space (~20MB), of:
- etc/gtk (MSYS2 don't build immodules)
- share/ghostscript (macOS .dmg don't package it)
- share/libthai (macOS .dmg don't package it)
- share/locale (???, decided to kept only gtk and iso-codes to test)
- share/man (installer don't package it, maybe because Windows can't open)
- share/poppler (macOS .dmg don't package it)
- bin/bzip2.exe (???)
- bin/gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders.exe (loaders.cache already bundled)
- bin/gspawn*.exe. (???)
- share/gir-1.0 (installer don't package it)
- share/lua (???)
- share/vala (installer don't package it)
The "???" ones seems to not be used according to my local tests. If
they are, a bug will appear so we will be able to know, comment in
the script (for maximum clarity towards the future) then revert.
In the process, make the Installer localization process less 'masochist'
(in other words: less manual). The custom '.xml' was the only way since
the iso-codes, Dammed Lies and Inno namings don't match.
Bruno