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mr.zeroandClaude Opus 5 26c7aa9be1 A catalog that can say a title is not yours
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A store with paid titles had nothing to tell this client and no way for it to
listen: the catalog carried no price, no entitlement and no sign-in, so a gated
download could only come back 403 and leave the window guessing why.

The knowledge belongs on the server, not here. This client serves whichever
catalog a registry names, so anything it knew about a particular shop would be
a rule that breaks every other one. WarpEngine 0.5 answers GET /api/service with
what it offers and puts an `access` block on every entry; this reads both. There
is no store name anywhere in the diff.

- **0.5 is a dialect of its own**, the older shape with `access` added. The
  version list is exhaustive over the selector, so adding it was a compile error
  until somebody said what it reads like — which is what that switch is for.
- **A card shows a price and a Buy button** when a title is not yours, opening
  the store's own page. Buying stays in a browser: a checkout rebuilt here would
  be a second place to get card handling wrong.
- **Signing in is the device grant**: a short code, the person's own browser, and
  no password crossing this window. The token goes in the OS keychain through
  safeStorage — one per store — and where no keychain exists it is not stored at
  all rather than written out in the clear.
- **Owned / To buy** join the categories, since owning something is not the same
  as having installed it.

Three things worth stating about the shape:

The bearer token stops at the origin that issued it. A gated download redirects
to signed storage — often somebody else's host — and some object stores refuse a
request outright when an Authorization header arrives alongside the signature.

An absent access block is not "free". It is an engine too old to have an
opinion, and only one of those two is a reason to offer somebody a sign-in, so
the three states are kept apart all the way to the card.

state.json does not carry entitlement. Whether somebody may download a title is
the server's answer to a question asked now; a copy on disk would go stale on the
next purchase or refund, and a stale yes is the dangerous direction.

A store with no sign-in shows none, and every WarpEngine before 0.5 is such a
store: no Account block, no prices, no new categories. The smoke test against the
live catalog reports exactly that — `sign-in: not offered`, `access: open:13`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-19 11:03:54 +02:00
mr.zeroandClaude Opus 5 06f3f2a3b1 The store engine moves into the client, and Python goes with it
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Reading the catalog, choosing the release that fits this machine, unpacking it,
writing the menu entry and remembering what went where all happen in process now.
There is no interpreter to find, no child process, and no JSON-lines protocol
between the two halves — `PythonEngineProcessRunner`, the runtime locator, the two
engine mappers and the version negotiation are all gone, and with them the one
unchecked cast this codebase had (engine stdout to a typed event).

What that buys a person: on Windows and on a fresh Mac the app simply works. It
used to look for `python3`, `python` and `py -3` and draw a link to python.org
where none answered.

What lands on disk is unchanged, deliberately. `config.json` and `state.json` keep
the shell engine's snake_case shape, its `<scope>:<name>` keys and its file modes,
so a machine whose library was installed by the CLI keeps it — verified against the
Python engine on the same catalog: the same 13-title listing with zero field
differences, byte-identical payloads, identical modes and an identical Info.plist,
and a re-sync over a Python-installed home that writes nothing. Remove, prune,
prune-suppression on a named sync and the v1 state migration were each exercised.

Three things worth knowing about the new code:

  - the zip reader is ~150 lines over `node:zlib`, because Node has none and this
    application has no runtime dependencies. It restores the executable bit from
    each entry's external attributes, without which nothing installed can start,
    and it refuses zip64, unknown compression and paths that escape the
    destination rather than guessing;

  - `SUPPORTED_WARP_ENGINE_VERSIONS` names the engine versions this client is
    written against, checked against the `WarpEngine-Version` header every
    response carries. `selectCatalogDialect` switches over that list exhaustively,
    so adding a version fails the build — type checker and linter both — until
    somebody says what its catalog reads like. An absent header is read as the
    oldest version, which is what an engine before 0.4.0 is;

  - refresh and the language picker are icons at the foot of the side menu now,
    both named for a tooltip and a screen reader, the picker still a real
    `<select>` under its glyph.

The repository is free of Python as well: the Makefile, the CI check and the
release script read package.json and the forge's JSON with Node.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-18 23:36:25 +02:00