[Ohrrpgce] Flatpak

James Paige Bob at hamsterrepublic.com
Tue Jul 13 03:55:48 PDT 2021


Yes, I wouldn't want it as the only/primary distribution, but it might be a
nice extra thing to make available

On Tue., Jul. 13, 2021, 12:33 a.m. qznebula, <qznebula at protonmail.com>
wrote:

> while it does require installing the whole flatpak runtime/setup, that
> *is* something a lot of people have done (and iirc is pretty easy to do),
> and unlike wrangling debian/ubuntu/fedora/etc etc etc repos, flatpak is (I
> believe) distro-independent! so that's one advantage.
>
> i do think just distributing the binary (presumably with a checksum) is
> important to do *first*, but flatpak could make installing it more
> convenient for those who do use it, or don't want to bother with handling
> binaries (or possibly compilation) themselves.
>
> ~nebula
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> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> On Tuesday, July 13th, 2021 at 1:03 AM, Ralph Versteegen <
> teeemcee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I haven't. I knew nothing about Flatpak but looking very briefly at it I
> don't think we want to use it as a main distribution channel, because it
> seems to require users to first install a Flatpak runtime on their system?
> We could still have it as an option, but maybe it won't add much if we
> start distributing SDL and SDL_mixer libs, which we should, as people have
> complained about getting questions from players about them.
>
> On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 at 11:01, James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com> wrote:
>
>> Just curious if you TMC, or anyone else on-list has had experience with
>> using *flatpak* on Linux. I am wondering if it is a good target for
>> OHRRPGCE Linux binary distributions
>>
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