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

[Fabien Bodard]

Well 600 MB it's a lot because ide use many dependencies but for
gambas produced apps maybe it will be interresting to be able to
produce snap from the ide.



Le ven. 11 janv. 2019 à 13:26, Benoît Minisini <g4mba5 at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> 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 ?
>
> --
> Benoît Minisini
>
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Fabien Bodard