moondeploy

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MoonDeploy

Lightweight software deployment

For software users

If you are a software user, you are probably wondering why you should install MoonDeploy and how you can actually employ it.

Please, have a look at MoonDeploy for users in the wiki.

Finally, you might also want to watch a YouTube video:

For software developers

MoonDeploy is especially interesting for software developers! ^__^!

Please, consult MoonDeploy for developers in the wiki to learn more about this technology!

Documentation

• The most important knowledge base is the wiki

• MoonDeploy's Go API has a dedicated GoDoc page, if you wish to employ its engine for a custom installer

First applications using MoonDeploy

• Chronos IDE, the visual development environment of a programming language dedicated to Discrete-Event simulation - created by MoonDeploy's author! 👻

• GraphsJ, a didactic ScalaFX application and framework for running graph algorithms

• KnapScal, a ScalaFX didactic application for the Knapsack problem

Special thanks

The author would like to thank (ordered by surname):

• Gionata Ercolani: for his thorough and extensive testing of MoonDeploy 3 on Mac OS X as well as for his valuable suggestions about Mac OS

• Marco Mengoli: for his valid feedback and suggestions on Mac OS X

Further references

• Official website

• MaanBloem - App manager for MoonDeploy

• Facebook page

Technologies

MoonDeploy employs the following technologies:

• Go, which was definitely brilliant for this task! ^__^!

• GitHub API - simple and elegant RESTful access to GitHub's information.

• Caravel

• LockAPI

• gotk3

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