Automation & CI

Recommended CI strategy

• Use GitHub Actions matrix runners (windows-latest, macos-latest, ubuntu-latest) to build platform artifacts.
• Prefer an aggregated final job that collects upload-artifact outputs from matrix jobs, then creates a single GitHub Release and uploads all artifacts. This avoids race conditions when multiple jobs update the same release.

Example flow

1. Matrix jobs: build frontend, run PyInstaller per-OS, upload-artifact with produced files.
2. Aggregator job: depends on matrix, download-artifact for each platform, create release and attach all artifacts.

Other automation ideas

• Run packaging & installer steps in CI and publish artifacts to GitHub Releases.
• Add smoke tests on each artifact (e.g., verify binary runs --version).
• Use Dependabot or equivalent to keep dependencies up to date.