What will distribution of apps built with this look like?

[axelson]

Hi 👋!

This is a really exciting project 🎉

Is wxWidgets statically linked into the resulting binary? Does this generate a binary? But I guess the real question is what will it look like if I want to distribute this to an end-user, will they need to custom compile wxWidgets? And will they need to have elixir and erlang installed?

[dominicletz]

We're using elixir-desktop at the moment to power the installer for "Diode Drive" at our company diode.io . You can check out the installation experience there if you want to see a preview diode.io/download -- I'm working on getting those parts generalized and open source as well, would be happy to get input on this as well on how to best approach.

[axelson]

Well, I have to say that the installation experience is about as flawless as can be expected on Linux, so great job on that 🙌

(As a side-note diode is a very interesting product!)

Is elixir-desktop also powering the main Diode Drive desktop app, or is it just the installer?

[dominicletz]

It's powering the main app.