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Hello Reddit, I wanted to share some new software I designed (and Claude helped implement). It’s called TiddlyInstall. It’s a single-page website for creating installers for your projects. What makes it unusual is that there’s nothing to install, and the whole thing can work offline. You can literally save TiddlyInstall as a single HTML file, open it later, and use it to generate working installers for Windows, Linux, and macOS. The idea came from noticing that most installers are custom-built for each project, even though the underlying logic is usually very similar. With a few changes, an installer can be made general-purpose and driven entirely by metadata. TiddlyInstall uses metadata, embedded resources, hashes encoded into filenames, and optional signatures to describe and verify what an installer should do. Because the installer binaries themselves are reusable, creating a new installer mostly comes down to changing metadata and embedded data, which can all be done directly in the browser. For Windows, I chose NSIS because of its excellent compatibility and mature ecosystem. The Linux and macOS sides are mostly shell scripting. The whole project is open source under the MIT license, and I’d really love to get feedback from people who try it. https://robertsdotpm.github.io/_static/tiddlyinstall.html <--- single page file already built GitHub: http://github.com/robertsdotpm/tiddlyinstall <---- source code for the project   submitted by   /u/Blockpair [link]   [comments]

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  • 发布时间：2026/9/25 18:27:05