[Gambas-user] Gambas as Snap or Flatpack package?

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 09/01/2019 à 15:02, Casper a écrit :
> Has anyone considered packaging Gambas for Ubuntu as a Snap of Flatpack package?
> 
> A quick snap search gambas returned no results.
> 
> The main advantages for the end user is the ease of installation,
> automated updating and it is claimed on the snap website to be more
> stable and secure.  The claim is also made that snap packages are
> universal Linux packages, though I have no experience of this.
> 
> In my experience it is simply a much easier way of staying up to date
> with a development tool, I use the snap package for Hugo instead of a
> custom repo and I can no longer have issues regarding updating.
> 
> http://snapcraft.io
> 
> Casper
> 
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Creating a snap seems to be relatively simple for "simple" C/C++ programs.

The problem is that the entire Gambas requires a lot of packages. Will 
it be useful if the resulting snap take 600 Mb on the disk because of 
all these packages ?

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Benoît Minisini