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Smoke and release

Desktop products on NuGet only

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`--smoke`

Headless pipeline (no main window). Invoked before Avalonia desktop lifetime:

dotnet run --project d:\novolis\novolis-apps\src\SketchStudio -p:NovolisUseProjectReferences=true -- --smoke

SmokeRunner checks:

  1. Gridify + undo on a stroke
  2. Fuse two strokes (shared groupId)
  3. SketchJson round-trip (v2 text + rotation + group)
  4. SketchExport.ToSvg non-empty
  5. Avalonia SetupWithoutStarting + ToPng byte length

Exit code 0 on pass, 1 on any failure. Printed as OK / FAIL lines.

Local installer

Requires Inno Setup 6 for the setup exe:

pwsh -File d:\novolis\novolis-apps\scripts\build-installer.ps1 -App SketchStudio

Zip-only:

pwsh -File d:\novolis\novolis-apps\scripts\build-installer.ps1 -App SketchStudio -SkipInstaller

Catalog entry (Publish-NovolisApp.ps1): key sketch-studio, AppId Novolis.SketchStudio, SetupBase SketchStudioSetup, script sketch-studio.iss.

Release assets

AssetRole
`SketchStudioSetup-{version}-win-x64.exe`User-scoped Inno install
`SketchStudio-{version}-win-x64.zip`Portable
`SHA256SUMS.txt`Hashes on the GitHub Release

Apps docs: release.md, getting-started.md.

Policy checks

pwsh -File d:\novolis\novolis-governance\scripts\verify-nuget-only.ps1

Manual smoke (UI)

After a UI change, verify: draw → save → reopen → Recent → Fuse → Copy PNG → Save As SVG → dirty close → F1 tips still match shortcuts.