Bill et al, Have you come to any conclusions? Again, my expectation is that OK2VLK and myself will handle any Flatpak-specific issues downstream. This should not affect your development work.
Chris K0SWE On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 5:40 PM Chris Keller <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Bill, > > I'm using the KDE 5.15 SDK > <https://invent.kde.org/packaging/flatpak-kde-runtime/-/tree/qt5.15lts> as > a base, which provides gcc 10.2.0 and Qt 5.15.3. We have flexibility to > change our SDK version or override tooling if needed. I would not expect > flatpak packaging to become a bottleneck for your development work. > > I have no argument against the fact that package size is bloated compared > to deb and rpm. There are some advantages > <https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/introduction.html#reasons-to-use-flatpak>, > such as not encountering version incompatibilities between low-level > libraries and high-level applications, and (theoretical) security > model improvements. It's a tradeoff. > > 73, Chris > > On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 4:50 PM Bill Somerville <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On 28/06/2021 23:32, Chris Keller wrote: >> >> Greetings, >> >> I'm in the process of packaging WSJT-X in flatpak >> <https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/introduction.html> format via the >> flathub <https://flathub.org/home> repository. Flatpak is an alternative >> to deb and rpm formats which aims to be Linux distribution agnostic and is >> gaining popularity. One of the advantages of the Flathub repository over >> specifically the Debian process is self-serve updates, so users will be >> able to get the latest app hours after the source repository gets a new >> version tag, not days or months. >> >> I have most of the packaging work done >> <https://github.com/xylo04/flathub/tree/wsjtx> and would like permission >> from the upstream maintainers (K1JT et al) to proceed with publishing. I'm >> co-maintaining several ham packages with AsciiWolf >> <https://github.com/AsciiWolf> and we are committed to handling any >> Flatpak-specific issues. >> >> Let me know what you think, >> Chris Keller, K0SWE >> >> Hi Chris, >> >> before answering your request I would like to know what compiler versions >> and Qt version you are intending to work with please? >> >> I ask because we also support non *nix platforms and we need freedom to >> choose these versions to meet our development goals. >> >> I should add that I am not a great fan of these sort of sandboxed >> packaged distributions, IMHO they discard most of the benefits of the Linux >> distribution mechanism and only gain ease of installation at considerable >> overhead in package size. >> >> 73 >> Bill >> G4WJS. >> _______________________________________________ >> wsjt-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel >> >
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