@term-hub/term-hub 0.1.5 → 0.1.6

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@term-hub/term-hub",
-  "version": "0.1.5",
+  "version": "0.1.6",
   "description": "Terminal Hub — capture every terminal you open and manage them all from one window. One-command cross-platform install (macOS / Linux / Windows).",
   "keywords": [
     "terminal",
@@ -41,10 +41,10 @@
   },
   "//": "optionalDependencies: npm installs ONLY the package whose os/cpu matches the host, so a mac user downloads just the darwin binaries, etc. Versions are kept in lockstep with this package and bumped together by CI.",
   "optionalDependencies": {
-    "@term-hub/darwin-arm64": "0.1.5",
-    "@term-hub/darwin-x64": "0.1.5",
-    "@term-hub/linux-x64": "0.1.5",
-    "@term-hub/linux-arm64": "0.1.5"
+    "@term-hub/darwin-arm64": "0.1.6",
+    "@term-hub/darwin-x64": "0.1.6",
+    "@term-hub/linux-x64": "0.1.6",
+    "@term-hub/linux-arm64": "0.1.6"
   },
   "engines": {
     "node": ">=18"

package/scripts/postinstall.js

@@ -67,13 +67,24 @@ function safe(fn) {
 if (process.platform !== "darwin" && process.platform !== "linux") process.exit(0);
 
 let hubBin = null;
+let hubBinErr = null;
 try {
   const p = require("../lib/resolve").exe("hub");
   if (fs.existsSync(p)) hubBin = p;
-} catch {
-  /* CLI wasn't installed for this platform either -- nothing to verify with */
+  else hubBinErr = `resolved path ${p} does not exist`;
+} catch (e) {
+  hubBinErr = e.message || String(e);
+}
+if (!hubBin) {
+  // This is the #1 cause of a silent "npm install did nothing" report: the
+  // platform-specific optional dependency (e.g. @term-hub/darwin-arm64)
+  // isn't installed or is missing its binary, so there's nothing to verify
+  // the GUI update signature with, so the whole GUI install step is skipped.
+  // Say so instead of exiting quietly -- the CLI itself still works either
+  // way, so this is informational, not an install failure.
+  if (hubBinErr) console.error(`Terminal Hub: skipping GUI install -- no CLI binary to verify signatures with (${hubBinErr}).`);
+  process.exit(0);
 }
-if (!hubBin) process.exit(0);
 
 // Tauri's {{target}}/{{arch}} keys, e.g. "darwin-aarch64", "linux-x86_64".
 const TARGET = { darwin: "darwin", linux: "linux" }[process.platform];
@@ -113,21 +124,27 @@ function installedVersionLinux() {
   }
 }
 
-// Fetching latest.json is the one step that runs unconditionally on every
-// `npm install`, including when there's nothing to do -- so its failure
-// (offline, GitHub unreachable) must be silent, not routed through safe()'s
-// error message.
+// Checked before the fetch (cheap, local, no network) so a fetch failure
+// can be judged against it below: an already-installed user going offline
+// is a real no-op and must stay silent, but a never-installed machine that
+// can't reach GitHub must not look identical to "nothing to do" -- that's
+// exactly what makes a fresh `npm install -g` look like it silently did
+// nothing.
+const installed = process.platform === "darwin" ? installedVersionMac() : installedVersionLinux();
+
 let manifest = null;
 try {
   manifest = fetchJsonSync(LATEST_JSON_URL);
-} catch {
-  process.exit(0);
+} catch (e) {
+  if (!installed) {
+    console.error(`Terminal Hub: could not check for the GUI app (${e.message || e}). The \`hub\`/\`term-hub\` CLI still works; retry the GUI install later with a fresh \`npm install -g @term-hub/term-hub\`.`);
+  }
+  process.exit(0); // offline/GitHub-unreachable is a real no-op once already installed
 }
 
 const entry = manifest.platforms && manifest.platforms[PLATFORM_KEY];
 if (!entry) process.exit(0); // no release artifact for this platform/arch yet
 
-const installed = process.platform === "darwin" ? installedVersionMac() : installedVersionLinux();
 if (installed && versionAtLeast(installed, manifest.version)) {
   process.exit(0); // already current -- install exactly once, never redundantly re-download/re-extract
 }