Creating an CMP app from the `command line`

[TBSten]

I’d like to make this excellent tool available to AI agents.
Could you please provide a way to run this tool from the command line?
I imagine there are various distribution methods available, such as a CLI, an npx script or an executable JAR file.

[terrakok]

I would go the following:

1. add K/N desktop targets to the project
2. add CLI arguments for required parameters
3. distribute it through homebrew and other package managers for every platform
4. automate a publication via GitHub actions

(and cover everything with tests of course)

You could try implement it. Step by step.
Take a look how I made kdoctor

[TBSten]

That sounds like a good idea too.
Ultimately, as long as we can come up with an AI-friendly method that can be run from the command line, that will be sufficient.

I’m not very familiar with distributing via package managers such as Homebrew, so from my perspective, distributing an executable JAR file seems the simplest option.
If I create a pull request to enable the building of executable JARs, will it be accepted?

[terrakok]

how will you distribute "executable jar"? how will users get updates?

[TBSten]

It’s true that executable JAR files do make distribution a bit of a faff...
There isn’t really a lightweight distribution method for JAR files like npx in Node.js, is there? It looks like we’ll have to download the JAR file to a temporary file using curl and then run it 🙏

# For download and execute one command.
# You could display this in Wizard, but that’s not exactly the smartest way to go about it.
curl -L https://terrakok.github.io/Compose-Multiplatform-Wizard/cli.jar -o /tmp/cmp-wizard-x.x.x.jar && \
  java -jar /tmp/cmp-wizard-x.x.x.jar && \
  rm /tmp/cmp-wizard-x.x.x.jar

[terrakok]

I think then, it's better to create a lightweight lambda server for the generation and expose a simple API

[TBSten]

Is the suggestion that, since downloading, running and cleaning up a JAR file is a bit of a faff, it would be better to extract this functionality as a Web API?

# We can generate a project simply by calling an API like this using curl
curl -X POST https://api.cmp-wizard.example.com/generate \
  -d '{"platforms":["android","ios"],"features":["navigation3","ktor-client"]}' \
  -o my-project.zip

Although it does involve managing Lambda and bearing the associated costs, apart from that, from the user’s perspective, it seems like a smart solution! 👍