CLAUDE.md gains a Packaging section for the four Taskfile facts the
recipes just needed — wails3 on PATH by bare name, no -ldflags on
`wails3 build`, bin/ not build/bin/, and bundling as its own step —
plus how build/'s platform metadata generates from build/config.yml and
what that refresh overwrites.
Its lifecycle, bindings, harness, events and CI sections were still
describing v2. The events one matters most: the rule to emit through
events.Emit survives, but its justification is now the weaker one, and
saying so is the point of the migration. v2's runtime.EventsEmit
log.Fatalf'd on any context not carrying the runtime; v3's emit takes
no context at all, so what is left to pin is that one emit path is what
lets emitStatus drop an unchanged payload for every caller at once.
README told a contributor to `go install wails/v2/cmd/wails` and
apt-get libgtk-3-dev/libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev; the CLI is vendored and the
stack is GTK4 + WebKitGTK 6.0. Two comments claiming Xvfb and one
claiming frontend/wailsjs go with them.
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`make sandbox`, `make dev`, `make build-dev` and `make build-prod` all
died with "/bin/sh: wails3: command not found". `wails3 dev` and
`wails3 task` are supervisors: they run the scaffold's Taskfile tree,
which invokes `wails3` by bare name in 54 places across four files. The
CLI is a vendored Go tool by design (plan 009, D3 — a global install
would be this build's first undeclared dependency), so that name did
not exist.
scripts/toolbin/wails3 execs `go tool wails3`, and the Makefile
prepends that directory only for the targets that start a supervisor.
Rewriting 54 scaffold call sites would be churn to redo on every
scaffold refresh; nothing global is installed either way.
The shim does not cd. The first version did, to be sure `go tool` found
the module — it does not need to — and that silently discarded the
`dir:` a task had set, so generate:icons failed with "open
appicon.png: no such file or directory" against a file that was there.
Three things the build path needed once it got that far:
- `frontend/package.json` gains `build:dev`, which build:frontend runs
under DEV=true and which did not exist.
- Vite binds 127.0.0.1. It defaulted to `localhost`, which resolves to
`[::1]` only here, while wails3 dev's asset proxy dials IPv4 — so the
first request for the dev server was refused and the first paint
raced a retry. Zero proxy errors after.
- The icons and the .desktop file are generated on every build.
icons.icns/icon.ico are deterministic from our appicon.png (verified
by regenerating), so the regenerated pair is committed and the churn
ends; .task/ and the .desktop file are ignored.
Also corrects a claim: build-prod strips and trims but does **not**
UPX-compress — that was v2's `-upx` flag. Phase 1 recorded UPX as
still working, but neither build target had been run.
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Phases 2 and 3 of plan 009, plus the parts of phase 1 that could not
land before them. Nothing in the tree imports wails/v2 any more; all
three lint and test configurations are green and `go build .` produces
a running binary.
The point of the migration is one file. backend/events/emit.go probed
ctx.Value("events") — a v2-*private* context key — to decide whether
emitting was safe, because runtime.EventsEmit called log.Fatalf on a
context without the runtime and took the process down with it. v3's
emit takes no context, so that is now application.Get() == nil. D1
held: events.Emit keeps its ctx as the WithSink test seam, and all 45
call sites and 7 test files are untouched.
The bootstrap splits into application.New + Window.NewWithOptions +
Run. Ten bound services implement ServiceStartup instead of being
handed a context by hand from OnStartup, which also stops ten
SetContext methods being exported as bindings. jobs.Registry and
explore.SearchIndex keep theirs — neither is bound, so converting them
would be churn for no binding removed.
Four things differed from the plan and are written up in it: GPU policy
moved to the per-window LinuxWindow options rather than surviving on
LinuxOptions; there is no OnStartup/OnDomReady option, so app-level
wiring hangs off ApplicationStarted; application.NewService is generic,
so FEBindings []any could not survive (the binding generator is a
static analyser and would have seen nothing); and the quit veto had to
be restructured, because v3's dialog answers on a callback rather than
returning the button, so ShouldQuit vetoes, asks, and quits again from
the callback.
Window state saving moves to a WindowClosing hook — the size has to be
read while the window still exists, and v3's OnShutdown has neither
context nor window. backend/logging is deleted rather than ported:
v3 takes a *slog.Logger directly, so the v2 logger.Logger adapter had
no caller left.
Phase 1's tail rides along, now that it can: the Makefile's wails
invocations, all 50 webkit2_41 sites, lefthook, both packaging recipes
and ci.yml's apt lists. v3 builds against GTK4 + WebKitGTK 6.0, which
Arch and ubuntu:24.04 both ship, so the tag is a deletion rather than
a translation.
Phase 4 is next and the branch is not usable until it lands: the app
builds, but frontend/wailsjs/ is v2's tree and nothing regenerates it,
so the frontend cannot reach the backend yet.
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The plan assumed build/ was free and that GTK4 was a preference. It
was not free — this repo used it as ignored build output — and GTK4 is
not available on the dev machine, which breaks `go tool wails3`
outright rather than merely changing which webkit is linked.
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