🆕 [ARM/ARM64 users] Feedback on new packages

[shiftkey]

Please submit any feedback you have here about the new ARM and ARM64 installers.

Latest release: 3.2.7-linux2

[isuro]

I'm using it via X11 & Docker, so some limitations apply from not having any real desktop environment or browser, but generally working great.

(Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS, installed via .deb, current XQuartz & Docker, Macbook Pro M1)

[md-shamim-ahmad]

I find a issue #906

[Lunarequest]

the flatpak now builds for aarch64 as well(flathub doesn't support arm so we haven't build it for it)

[isuro]

Launching from cli no longer works ☹️.
As of 3.2.7-linux2, if I comment out the redirect to /dev/null in /usr/lib/github-desktop/resources/app/static/github, I get:

$ github
ERR! Desktop command line interface not currently supported on platform linux
Error: Desktop command line interface not currently supported on platform linux
    at t (/usr/lib/github-desktop/resources/app/cli.js:1:26473)
    at Object.handler (/usr/lib/github-desktop/resources/app/cli.js:1:26160)
    at h (/usr/lib/github-desktop/resources/app/cli.js:1:28549)
    at e (/usr/lib/github-desktop/resources/app/cli.js:1:28693)
    at /usr/lib/github-desktop/resources/app/cli.js:1:28764
    at /usr/lib/github-desktop/resources/app/cli.js:1:28783
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/github-desktop/resources/app/cli.js:1:28808)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1241:14)
    at Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1296:10)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1096:32)

(Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS, installed via .deb, current XQuartz & Docker, Macbook Pro M1)

[shiftkey]

@isuro which architecture are you installing? That appears to be this error:

desktop/app/src/cli/open-desktop.ts

Lines 20 to 22 in 18c585f

	throw new Error(
	`Desktop command line interface not currently supported on platform ${process.platform}`
	)

But I'm puzzled about how it's reaching there because the __LINUX__ global that we set when building also uses process.platform:

desktop/app/app-info.ts

Line 37 in 18c585f

__LINUX__: process.platform === 'linux',

[isuro]

Installed via GitHubDesktop-linux-arm64-3.2.7-linux2.deb

[isuro]

And indeed:

$ npx ts-node
> process.platform
'linux'

[isuro]

According to the source map, the case wasn't built in somehow:

[shiftkey]

Cool, that gives me some context to dig into @isuro - thanks for poking at the package contents...

[isuro]

Ping me if you have a new .deb you'd like me to try out!

[Bezierr]

This is not about the ARM installer but about AMD64.deb .
Issue: Geany is not supported as external editor anymore. This worked up to and including 3.2.5.

(System: Mint 21.1 Mate)

[shiftkey]

@Bezierr

Issue: Geany is not supported as external editor anymore. This worked up to and including 3.2.5.

This was removed in #894 because it doesn't support opening a directory, and I was receiving bug reports about it #871