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If the app would otherwise make sense to be web facing, one option that I've seen work quite well is to develop the "app" as a local, packaged web stack. Users
by danpat 12y ago
If the app would otherwise make sense to be web facing, one option that I've seen work quite well is to develop the "app" as a local, packaged web stack. Users point the browser at "http://localhost:10000/" http://localhost:10000/"
This has the advantage of removing the native UI toolkit question. This might make it easier to develop a native executable that's easy to package and distribute.
- pjungwir 12y agoHa, I just did this. We built a VirtualBox VM with Vagrant and Chef then distributed the .box file. I think it worked pretty well, and we got good feedback about smooth installs, although there are a few small things I'd do differently to make updates easier.