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

[Sebastián Kulesz]

I tried to package it a few months ago, but failed constantly to produce a
working snap. The documentation is not that great, but someone with more
time and understanding will surely get to a working package.

I will see If I still have the files in my computer when I get back home so
that if anyone wants to try does not have to start from scratch.

On Fri, Jan 11, 2019, 11:50 Fabien Bodard <gambas.fr at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
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> 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
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