#45 - tui: packaging — meson target, PKGBUILD, nfpm - charles/loom

charles commented

2026-04-11 13:07:11 +00:00

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User story

As a user installing Loom from AUR or distro packages, I want loom-tui available as an optional companion binary to loom-gtk, so that I can opt into the TUI without pulling it in by default.

Acceptance criteria

meson

meson.build gains an option -Dtui=enabled|disabled|auto (default auto)
When enabled, builds loom-tui via cargo build --release -p loom-tui and installs it to bindir
auto enables it when cargo is present and disables cleanly otherwise

AUR PKGBUILD

Add loom-tui as an optional dependency line (optdepends) of the main package
Build step invokes cargo build --release -p loom-tui
Install step places the binary under $pkgdir/usr/bin/loom-tui
No new desktop file / icon (TUI is terminal only)

nfpm

Add a loom-tui.yaml nfpm config (deb/rpm) that bundles just the binary
Wire into any existing packaging recipe/script so both loom-gtk and loom-tui artefacts are produced

Docs

Update docs/ installation sections to mention loom-tui

Out of scope

Flatpak (spec §13 out of scope)

References

Spec §11 "Build & Packaging"

## User story As a user installing Loom from AUR or distro packages, I want `loom-tui` available as an optional companion binary to `loom-gtk`, so that I can opt into the TUI without pulling it in by default. ## Acceptance criteria ### meson - [ ] `meson.build` gains an option `-Dtui=enabled|disabled|auto` (default `auto`) - [ ] When enabled, builds `loom-tui` via `cargo build --release -p loom-tui` and installs it to `bindir` - [ ] `auto` enables it when `cargo` is present and disables cleanly otherwise ### AUR PKGBUILD - [ ] Add `loom-tui` as an optional dependency line (`optdepends`) of the main package - [ ] Build step invokes `cargo build --release -p loom-tui` - [ ] Install step places the binary under `$pkgdir/usr/bin/loom-tui` - [ ] No new desktop file / icon (TUI is terminal only) ### nfpm - [ ] Add a `loom-tui.yaml` nfpm config (deb/rpm) that bundles just the binary - [ ] Wire into any existing packaging recipe/script so both `loom-gtk` and `loom-tui` artefacts are produced ### Docs - [ ] Update `docs/` installation sections to mention loom-tui ## Out of scope - Flatpak (spec §13 out of scope) ## References - Spec §11 "Build & Packaging"

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tui: tracking — loom-tui v0.1.0 roadmap & implementation order #47

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