Assembly for the DAISY Pipeline 2 distribution

The default Pipeline 2 distribution is assembled with the Maven Assembly Plugin.

The library dependencies and list of Pipeline 2 modules are configured in the main pom.xml and copied in a set of goals of the maven-dependency-plugin.

The project allows to build the following distributions:

• the "CLI" distribution (with the command line user interface), packaged as a ZIP (default)
• the "macOS Application Bundle" distribution
• the "Windows installer" distribution
• the "Debian" distribution (DEB package)
• the "Red Hat" distribution (RPM package)
• the "minimal" distribution, being a ZIP containing the updater and any files not downloaded by the updater

See the following sections for more details on how to enable these distributions.

CLI Distribution

Build the default distribution with:

make

On Windows and macOS, the Windows installer and macOS application bundle distributions are respectively enabled by default.

macOS Application Bundle Distribution

To build a MacOS application bundle:

make dmg

The dmg target will package the DAISY Pipeline as a macOS application bundle (.app package), and will put it inside a disk image (.dmg file).

The disk image is created with the node-appdmg tool, run with a local version of Node installed by the Maven build in the target directory.

This distribution can only be built on a Mac.

Windows Installer Distribution

To build an installer for Windows:

make exe

The exe target will package the DAISY Pipeline into an executable installer.

The installer is created with NSIS.

Debian Distribution

Build a Debian package with:

make deb

To inspect package contents and metadata:

dpkg-deb -c target/*.deb
dpkg-deb -f target/*.deb

To install the package:

dpkg -i target/*.deb

To uninstall:

dpkg -r daisy-pipeline

Red Hat/CentOS Distribution

Build an RPM package with:

make rpm

Note: only proven to work on Red Hat/CentOS, although it should be theoretically possible to build RPMs on other platforms including Mac OS after installing rpmbuild.

To install the package:

rpm -i target/rpm/pipeline2/RPMS/x86_64/*.rpm

"Minimal" Distribution

This distribution contains the updater and any files not downloaded by the updater. To build it:

make minimal-zip

Release Procedure

See https://github.com/daisy/pipeline/wiki/Releasing#release-procedure.