fix: simplify ui's handling of requirements.txt by pre-generating it

We had been attempting to generate it for every ui developer. A hassle for them, bug prone (since we were caching a venv, and caching is hard), and hard to get stable in github action automation (especially windows). For example, the prior setup required that CI machines have python, even just to build an app bundle. With this change, that is no longer a requirement. Python is only needed if you want to Run pdl programs.

Signed-off-by: Nick Mitchell <[email protected]>

Author: starpit

.github/workflows/pdl-live-react-tests.yml

@@ -35,12 +35,12 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test pdl-live viewer
         run: npm test
       - name: Test production build
-        run: npm run prod:linux
+        run: npm run tauri build
       - name: Setup xvfb for screen 0
         run: Xvfb :1 -screen 0 1600x1200x24 &      
       - name: Run production build
         env:
           DISPLAY: :1
-        run: ./src-tauri/target/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/PDL notacommand || true
+        run: ./src-tauri/target/release/pdl run | grep Usage
       - name: Tear down xvfb
         run: killall Xvfb  

.github/workflows/release-ui.yml

@@ -32,11 +32,6 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
-      - name: Set up Python 3.12
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
-        with:
-          python-version: 3.12
-
       - name: setup node
         uses: actions/setup-node@v4
         with:
@@ -68,13 +63,6 @@ jobs:
       - name: install frontend dependencies
         run: npm ci # change this to npm, pnpm or bun depending on which one you use.
 
-      - name: prep interpreter
-        if: matrix.platform != 'windows-latest'
-        run: npm run prep-interpreter-from-scratch
-      - name: prep interpreter for windows
-        if: matrix.platform == 'windows-latest'
-        run: npm run prep-interpreter-from-scratch-windows
-
       - name: Install wget for Windows
         if: matrix.platform == 'windows-latest'
         run: choco install wget --no-progress

pdl-live-react/package.json

@@ -6,10 +6,7 @@
   "scripts": {
     "prod:mac:1": "npm run tauri build -- --no-bundle --target=universal-apple-darwin",
     "prod:mac:2": "npm run tauri bundle -- --bundles dmg --target universal-apple-darwin",
-    "prod:linux:1": "npm run tauri build -- --no-bundle --target=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu",
-    "prod:linux:2": "npm run tauri bundle -- --bundles deb --target x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu",
-    "prod:mac": "npm run prep-interpreter && npm run prod:mac:1 && npm run prod:mac:2",
-    "prod:linux": "npm run prep-interpreter && npm run prod:linux:1 && npm run prod:linux:2",
+    "prod:mac": "npm run prod:mac:1 && npm run prod:mac:2",
     "dev": "vite",
     "build": "tsc && vite build",
     "lint": "eslint .",
@@ -21,12 +18,8 @@
     "test": "concurrently -n 'quality,playwright' 'npm run test:quality' 'npm run test:ui'",
     "pdl": "./src-tauri/target/debug/PDL",
     "view": "npm run pdl view",
-    "prep-interpreter": "if [ ! -d .venv ]; then npm run prep-interpreter-from-scratch; fi",
-    "prep-interpreter-from-scratch": "python3.12 -mvenv .venv && npm run reprep-interpreter",
-    "prep-interpreter-from-scratch-windows": "python -mvenv .venv && npm run reprep-interpreter-windows",
-    "reprep-interpreter": ". .venv/bin/activate && pip install -e .. && pip freeze > .venv/requirements.txt",
-    "reprep-interpreter-windows": ".\\.venv\\Scripts\\Activate.ps1 ; pip install -e .. ; pip freeze > .venv\\requirements.txt",
-    "start": "npm run prep-interpreter && npm run tauri dev"
+    "prep-interpreter": "python3.12 -mvenv .venv && . .venv/bin/activate && pip install -e .. && pip freeze > requirements.txt",
+    "start": "npm run tauri dev"
   },
   "dependencies": {
     "@patternfly/react-core": "^6.1.0",

pdl-live-react/requirements.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+aiohappyeyeballs==2.4.6
+aiohttp==3.11.13
+aiosignal==1.3.2
+alchemy-config==1.1.3
+annotated-types==0.7.0
+anyio==4.8.0
+asttokens==3.0.0
+attrs==25.1.0
+certifi==2025.1.31
+charset-normalizer==3.4.1
+click==8.1.8
+decorator==5.2.1
+distro==1.9.0
+executing==2.2.0
+filelock==3.17.0
+frozenlist==1.5.0
+fsspec==2025.2.0
+granite-io==0.1.0
+h11==0.14.0
+httpcore==1.0.7
+httpx==0.28.1
+huggingface-hub==0.29.1
+idna==3.10
+importlib_metadata==8.6.1
+ipython==8.33.0
+jedi==0.19.2
+Jinja2==3.1.5
+jiter==0.8.2
+json_repair==0.39.1
+jsonschema==4.23.0
+jsonschema-specifications==2024.10.1
+litellm==1.61.20
+MarkupSafe==3.0.2
+matplotlib-inline==0.1.7
+multidict==6.1.0
+openai==1.65.2
+packaging==24.2
+parso==0.8.4
+pexpect==4.9.0
+-e git+ssh://[email protected]/IBM/[email protected]#egg=prompt_declaration_language
+prompt_toolkit==3.0.50
+propcache==0.3.0
+ptyprocess==0.7.0
+pure_eval==0.2.3
+pydantic==2.10.6
+pydantic_core==2.27.2
+Pygments==2.19.1
+python-dotenv==1.0.1
+PyYAML==6.0.2
+referencing==0.36.2
+regex==2024.11.6
+requests==2.32.3
+rpds-py==0.23.1
+sniffio==1.3.1
+stack-data==0.6.3
+termcolor==2.5.0
+tiktoken==0.9.0
+tokenizers==0.21.0
+tqdm==4.67.1
+traitlets==5.14.3
+typing_extensions==4.12.2
+urllib3==2.3.0
+wcwidth==0.2.13
+yarl==1.18.3
+zipp==3.21.0

pdl-live-react/src-tauri/tauri.conf.json

@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
     "active": true,
     "targets": "all",
     "resources": {
-      "../.venv/requirements.txt": "interpreter/requirements.txt"
+      "../requirements.txt": "interpreter/requirements.txt"
     },
     "icon": [
       "icons/32x32.png",