Add example configuration and script to build a windows installer

[SamHames]

This is a draft of what a windows installer looks like with pynsist.

I think in principle this could be automated to run on releases, with the built installer attached as an artifact to the release itself.

Things I haven't worked out yet:

• code signing, to avoid warnings about untrusted developers
• pynsist requires you specify an entrypoint, which creates a task bar entry, which is definitely odd for a command line program. Maybe that should open a browser and link to the twarc help about running as a command line application?

[igorbrigadir]

This would be great to have!

Maybe the entry point should launch a command prompt? With twarc2 --help or something?

[edsu]

Have you compared pynsist with PyInstaller? I think the latter would build an executable for other platforms, which might be useful? I ran across PyInstaller in the Webrecorder project, where they built an Electron desktop application that accesses a local version of their Python webapp.

[SamHames]

I did have a look - the main thing pynsist does is create a proper installer which sets the path and other things needed. Despite the name pyinstaller only creates an executable that can be packaged by something else into an installer. I did miss it the first time around but c-freeze supports creating both windows msi installers and Mac dmg formats. So I'll take a look at that next time I get the chance. I am wary of trying to do too much at once too, especially for platforms that aren't what I'm usually working on. There's also going to be work figuring out codesigning and other things 🙈

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