Linux Flatpak or Tarball for Distro Packaging
AdsonCIcilioti
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It would be very well regarded and well liked by the numerous Linux distro communities if the Linux version of Lunacy were distributed via Flatpak or in a GIT Repository containing Tarball (.tar.gz).
Thank you very much for choosing the DEB and Snap Format, but the .deb format is for Debian and Ubuntu derivatives, and we have many other distros like Fedora, Arch, Manjaro, Suse, and many others that don't use .deb.
Snap, although it can be adopted on any Linux, it is not very well regarded, due to several performance and security problems.
Providing a Tarball would be interesting and inviting for distros to package to their native format. I know Lunacy is closed code. Tarball would be from the already compiled application.
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Hello guys, we'll be tackling this soon.
Stay tuned for updates!
+1 Flatpak
+1 Flatpak
+1 Flatpak
Unfortunattely, snap is not very popular package format and de-facto ubuntu-only. But ubuntu already isn't most popuplar linux distro as in previous times.
Flatpak is much more popular than snap, and it fixes linux's fragmentation problem. You can build and test flatpak package on ubuntu and it will be works at almost all other distros where flatpak installed. Seems flatpak will drive out snap from the market in future.
So, flatpak package should solve periodically issues & questions from various linux users here 😁
+1 Flatpak