kurl VS hubstore

[9] https://github.com/pyrustic/kurl

- ensures that more an app is recommended by different developers, as well as a chance to be in the promotion list often (until the user decides to install it).

The choice to put a Promoted button on which the user can click may seem naive. Implementing intrusive pop-ups can be recommended as a more pragmatic method. This choice to trust the altruistic curiosity of users was influenced by an observation (I have 0 statistics to show) I made here on Hackernews: there are always users who click on Newest (https://news.ycombinator.com/shownew) to bring up posts that might deserve attention, though these users are not affiliated with these posts.

I want Hubstore to make it easy to distribute and promote Python apps (built with Pyrustic Framework or not). This is still a beta version for early-adopters.

Under the hood:

- Hubstore is built with Pyrustic Framework [1]

- data storage is done with Shared [2]

- autocomplete is done with Suggestion [3]

- GUI-compatible multithreading is done with Threadom [4]

- Hubstore consumes Python Wheels

- Hubstore uses Github's Release Asset feature [5]

- Apps can be built and released with Backstage [6]

- the dark theme is based on Cyberpunk-Theme [7]

- all views implement Viewable [8]

- Hubstore uses Kurl [9] to fetch resources from api.github.com

I would like to know what you think [10] of this project.

[1] https://github.com/pyrustic/pyrustic

[2] https://github.com/pyrustic/shared

[3] https://github.com/pyrustic/suggestion

[4] https://github.com/pyrustic/threadom

[5] https://github.blog/2013-07-02-release-your-software/

[6] https://github.com/pyrustic/backstage

[7] https://github.com/pyrustic/cyberpunk-theme

[8] https://github.com/pyrustic/viewable

[9] https://github.com/pyrustic/kurl

[10] http://sl4.org/crocker.html

Link to Hubstore: https://github.com/pyrustic/hubstore

I created the Pyrustic framework and built a few applications with it, including Hubstore to connect users to applications.

Hi HN !

Months ago I showcased [1] Pyrustic [2], a framework and software suite to build, package and publish Python desktop applications.

The framework adds megawidgets like Table and Scrollbox to Tkinter, implements views with lifecycle and more GUI related contributions. But it's not just a framework for the GUI, for example it comes with Gurl for resource fetching with a built-in responses caching system and support for conditional requests, multithreading made easier with even the possibility of retrieving from the main thread the values returned by the functions executed in other threads and also the exceptions raised by these functions, etc.

Pyrustic is not a framework highly specialized in a specific domain, but rather a framework which aims to help build full featured desktop applications (capable of resource fetching, database support, etc.)

Pyrustic is also a lightweight software suite: a command line program to help the developer manage his project, a graphical sql editor, a graphical test runner, and also a tool to publish the packaged application on Github.

Once the developer has published packaged app on Github, the next challenge is: how to make the download-unpack-install-run-manage-apps process easier for the end user.

So here I am back to showcase Hubstore [3].

I look forward to reading your comments [4], questions etc. Thanks for your feedback. Genuinely appreciated.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23930255

[2] https://github.com/pyrustic/pyrustic#readme

[3] https://github.com/pyrustic/hubstore#readme

[4] http://sl4.org/crocker.html