Building and releasing were a build followed by remembered `tea` invocations, and
the second half was the part I got wrong by hand: the first release went out with
assets attached through a path that half-failed. `make release` is now one command
— package for this machine, then create the release and upload — and the pieces
are also available separately as `make dist` and `make publish`.
The Makefile adds no logic beyond that: every other target wraps an npm script, so
`npm start` and `npm run dist:mac` keep working. What it does add is a Node
version guard on anything that touches Electron's installer, because a Node 20
`npm install` fails deep inside a postinstall script with an ESM error that says
nothing about the cause.
`scripts/release.sh` holds the publishing, in POSIX sh like the other repositories'
scripts:
- the tag comes from package.json, so `npm version patch` is the only place a
version is written;
- an attachment whose name is already on the release is replaced rather than
refused, which is what makes rebuild-and-upload repeatable;
- the repository is read from `origin`, so a fork publishes to the fork;
- `RELEASE_NOTES.md` becomes the release body when it exists.
Tested against the live release with a small probe file rather than by pushing 240
MB twice: creation is skipped when the release exists, a repeat upload takes the
replace path, and an empty `dist/` refuses with the command to run instead. The
probe was removed afterwards.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
