Suitcase: A macOS tool for deploying GUIs for simple commands and scripts

fit2rule wrote: post #5

fimdomeio wrote: post #3

does anyone know of similar tools for linux?

This also works on Linux. Edit: my mistake, no it doesn't. Apologies.

where do you see that? theres not even code in this repo, and the only release is a dmg file

Re: Suitcase: A macOS tool for deploying GUIs for simple commands and scripts

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Post by KMnO4 » Wed, Apr 29, 2020, 1:54 PM UTC

Awesome, I welcome any tools that simplify the GUI deployment process.

I've built quite a collection of scripts that clean and process my company's domain-specific data. I once needed to share that with a data-scientist/computer-Luddite (sadly too common) who wasn't comfortable running CLI scripts. The solution I came up with used Platypus[0] to generate a lovely app wrapper where files could be dragged in.

[0]: https://github.com/sveinbjornt/Platypus

Re: Suitcase: A macOS tool for deploying GUIs for simple commands and scripts

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Post by rjstelling » Wed, Apr 29, 2020, 2:09 PM UTC

mumphster wrote: post #7

fit2rule wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This also works on Linux. Edit: my mistake, no it doesn't. Apologies.

where do you see that? theres not even code in this repo, and the only release is a dmg file

It's not open source yet, but I am planning on making it so. Watch this space. In the mean time I'm open to feedback and bug reports via GitHub issues.

Re: Suitcase: A macOS tool for deploying GUIs for simple commands and scripts

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Post by k2enemy » Wed, Apr 29, 2020, 2:15 PM UTC

Very cool. Just a suggestion for the demos in the README though. Maybe have the code shown statically, then a gif of the GUI. Watching all the typing gets long when I just want to see the resulting GUI.