Building executables without any testing is quite sketchy, let's at
least verify they won't crash on startup and format Black's own
codebase.
Also replaced "binaries" with "executables" since it's clearer and
won't be confused with mypyc.
Finally, I added colorama so all Windows users can get colour.
The recent 2021.4 release of pyinstaller-hooks-contrib now contains a
built-in hook for platformdirs. Manually specifying the hidden import
arg should no longer be needed.
Add new platformdirs dependencies as hidden imports when creating
PyInstaller-based binaries.
platformdirs imports the module for each platform dynamically, which
PyInstaller is unable to correctly detect for packing. By adding the
modules as hidden imports, we are telling PyInstaller to include the
modules in the packaged binary.
This issue seems to have been introduce when switching to platformdirs
in #2375. fixes#2464
Commit history before merge:
* Add hidden import to PyInstaller build
Add new platformdirs dependency as a hidden import when creating
PyInstaller based binaries.
* Only include the platformdirs for the relevant os
This commit adds a new GitHub Actions workflow that builds self-contained
binaries / executables and uploads them as release assets to the triggering
release. Publishing a release, drafting one doesn't count, will trigger this
workflow.
I personally used GitHub Actions only because it's the CI/CD platform(?)
I am familiar with. Only Windows and Linux binaries are supported since
I don't have any systems running Mac OS.
For Linux, I had originally planned to use the manylinux2010 docker image
the PyPA provides for highly compatible wheel building, but unfortunately
it wasn't feasible due to GitHub Actions and PyInstaller incompatibilities.
As a stopgap the oldest versions of Linux and Windows are used although
Windows Server 2019 isn't that old nor is Ubuntu 16.04! I guess someone
(maybe me) could work out something else if compatibility is big problem.
A few things you should know about the workflow:
- You don't need to set the `GITHUB_TOKEN` secret as it is automatically
provided by GitHub.
- matrix.pathsep is used because PyInstaller configuration's format is OS
dependent for some reason ...
Also it's worth mentioning that Black once had Travis CI and AppVeyor
configuration that did the same thing as this commit. They were committed
in mid 2018 and worked (somewhat) well. Eventually we stopped using AppVeyor
and the refactor to packages broke the Travis CI config. This commit
replaces the still existing and broken Travis CI config wholesale.
Co-authored-by: Anders Fredrik Kiær <31612826+anders-kiaer@users.noreply.github.com>
- Anders told me that I could get the release asset upload URL directly
from the github.event.release payload. I originally planned to use
bruceadams/get-release to get such URL.
