Factory Instructions

Factory Rationale

You have probably come here, because you were asked to checkout a change made for you on factory or its commercial counterpart staging branch.

Both the main and develop branch are supposed to be working for people at all times. For experiments in the context of issues and generally features not yet ready for prime time, there we have the factory branch. The staging branch is generally only updated when factory is assumed to be relatively good, but tread with caution there as well.

How to get factory or staging.

Factory Status

git

# Standard version:
git clone --branch factory https://github.com/Nuitka/Nuitka.git
# Commercial version (subscribers only)
git clone --branch staging https://github.com/Nuitka/Nuitka-commercial.git

Either just run bin/nuitka from the checkout, and it will use the install local to it, or run python setup.py develop which will create a .pth file that is kind of like a symlink, i.e. if you update the git, Nuitka is automatically updated in your environment too. Of course python setup.py install does that, but actually copies it into the environment.

pip

# With "python" being the one where you want to install Nuitka into.

# Standard version:
python -m pip install -U --force-reinstall "https://github.com/Nuitka/Nuitka/archive/factory.zip"
# Commercial version (subscribers only)
python -m pip install -U --force-reinstall "https://github.com/Nuitka/Nuitka-commercial/archive/staging.zip"

When it is released?

Factory only contents gets distributed to main and develop when the time has come to make a new hotfix. Usually there is one every one or two weeks, but before a new release comes out, they often stop for a while, with the new release being so close it wouldn’t matter much.

Fixes that are not invasive go to a hotfix branch on GitHub first, you can use that branch if you want. Fixes that are invasive go to develop at roughly the same time a hotfix is releases, there is usually a day between that for package builds to be completed.

For invasive fixes that are critical, they might be release triggers, certainly if Nuitka commercial priority customers are affected.

Subscribing to Nuitka Commercial

You may also learn more about Nuitka Commercial offering.

You might want to have better protection of your IP or just more robust updates sooner, then you can go and purchase Nuitka commercial. You of course also support the responsive support given.

Word of Warning

The factory branch may include all kinds of stupid mistakes, e.g. not being executable with all versions, crashing, not working at all. They also frequently change without notice, and nearly always as a rebase. So please use it only for the issue at hand or even more than usually on your own risk.

Once confirmed and found good, fixes will normally appear on develop or main branch relatively shortly, try to use those instead from then on, and wait for the change to appear there. To keep using factory is asking for trouble, and it may have issues you didn’t notice.

My recommendation about staging is slightly less strict, but honestly I recommend to treat it the same even if it is attempted to be kept stable, there is no way this actually succeeds all the time.