Uses python 2, which is EOL

[bmulholland]

Fails because macos no longer has python2:

$ electron-builder --mac --universal
  • electron-builder  version=22.14.13 os=21.5.0
  • loaded configuration  file=package.json ("build" field)
  • writing effective config  file=dist/builder-effective-config.yaml
  • packaging       platform=darwin arch=x64 electron=17.1.2 appOutDir=dist/mac-universal--x64
  • packaging       platform=darwin arch=arm64 electron=17.1.2 appOutDir=dist/mac-universal--arm64
  • packaging       platform=darwin arch=universal electron=17.1.2 appOutDir=dist/mac-universal
  • skipped macOS application code signing  reason=Identity name is specified, but no valid identity with this name in the keychain identity=Emmanouil Konstantinidis (3YP8SXP3BF) allIdentities=     0 identities found
                                                Valid identities only
     0 valid identities found
  • notarizing      either should not notarize or not building for macOS
  • building        target=macOS zip arch=universal file=dist/Gitify-4.3.2-universal-mac.zip
  • building        target=DMG arch=universal file=dist/Gitify-4.3.2-universal.dmg
  • Detected arm64 process, HFS+ is unavailable. Creating dmg with APFS - supports Mac OSX 10.12+
  • building block map  blockMapFile=dist/Gitify-4.3.2-universal-mac.zip.blockmap
  ⨯ Exit code: ENOENT. spawn /usr/bin/python ENOENT  failedTask=build stackTrace=Error: Exit code: ENOENT. spawn /usr/bin/python ENOENT
    at /Users/bmulholland/sources/gitify/node_modules/builder-util/src/util.ts:133:18
    at exithandler (node:child_process:397:5)
    at ChildProcess.errorhandler (node:child_process:409:5)
    at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:537:28)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:289:12)
    at onErrorNT (node:internal/child_process:476:16)
    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:82:21)
error Command failed with exit code 1.

[bmulholland]

The main issue seems to be that all the dependencies are very out of date

[bmulholland]

I tried updating all the dependencies but there's breaking changes. I think we'll need to upgrade each package one at a time. What do you think about enabling dependabot and working through those one by one?

[Araxeus]

can you try updating only electron-builder and see if that helps?

alternatively couldn't you just install python?

[bmulholland]

Yes, I suppose I could install python2. It's been EOL'd, though, and upgrading dependencies to get python3 support seems like the better way?

[bmulholland]

Okay strange: I had it working at one point, and pretty sure I just upgraded electron-builder for that. But I wiped that out to see if it was still necessary, and now I can't get to a working state (without python2) again.

[Araxeus]

updating electron-builder to atleast 23.0.2 should fix this according to this issue electron-userland/electron-builder#6606 (comment)

are you sure that it doesn't work if you update only electron-builder in the custom-release branch?

can you just run yarn add electron-builder to make sure that its updated to the latest version?

[bmulholland]

Yeah the problem was that I just did yarn upgrade without changing package.json. Whoops :). Back to working again with electron-builder 23.1.0