Installation Script Improvements:
- Add tarball download and extraction functions
- Prefer tarballs over git clone for version tag installations
- Maintain git clone fallback for reliability and branch installations
- Add intelligent CSS/dependency detection to skip builds when present
- Fix non-interactive mode to handle fresh installations
Release Script Improvements:
- Include pre-built CSS and build configuration files
- Add production npm dependencies to tarballs
- Add verification for essential files in releases
- Update instructions to promote automated installation
- Ensure compatibility with tarball installation approach
Benefits:
- Faster installations (no npm install/CSS build required)
- More reliable in constrained network environments
- Backward compatible with existing workflows
- Maintains full functionality for development branches
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Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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