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

Fabien Bodard gambas.fr at gmail.com
Fri Jan 11 18:39:38 CET 2019


Good 😊

Le ven. 11 janv. 2019 16:17, Sebastián Kulesz <sebikul at gmail.com> a écrit :

> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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