Mac packages are a ZIP within a ZIP

[suy]

Hola Alex. 👋🏼 😃

Thank you for the template. It has helped me a lot on setting up my project, and I will probably need to look at it again for a Windows package.

I would like to mention that the ZIP packages coming straight from the Github workflows are a ZIP... which inside the run was content already in another ZIP. For example, if I go the latest run, the macOS.zip download is a ZIP package, which in turn contains the ZIP that was created via the workflow.

Seems there is no solution to this, but I'd like to point it out just in case you want to skip the zipping, to avoid confusion. Myself, I've went the way to upload the whole .app bundle, as the upload-artifact action can upload a directory just fine, but also to create a DMG with macdeployqt and publish that as well. DMGs used to be the way to get applications on Macs, at least some time ago, so I suppose that will be good.

For reference, here is what I've used in my case:

      - name: Deploy app
        run: |
          macdeployqt bin/MyApp.app
          macdeployqt bin/MyApp.app -dmg
          mv bin/MyApp.app MyApp-${{env.APP_VERSION}}.app
          mv bin/MyApp.dmg MyApp-${{env.APP_VERSION}}.dmg

      - name: Upload DMG
        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
        with:
          name: MyApp-${{env.APP_VERSION}}.dmg
          path: MyApp-${{env.APP_VERSION}}.dmg

      - name: Upload app bundle
        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
        with:
          name: MyApp-${{env.APP_VERSION}}.app
          path: MyApp-${{env.APP_VERSION}}.app

Cheers, and thank you again.