Hi Chris,
your request is not being ignored, we are a bit busy at present. I was
hoping the existing Linux package maintainers might have some comments
as well.
73
Bill
G4WJS.
On 05/07/2021 02:09, Chris Keller wrote:
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]
<mailto:[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] <mailto:[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.
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