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

[Sebastián Kulesz]

As promised, here is the work I did before I abandoned it.

I'm not sure how it will work with the current versions of snap, snapcraft,
and gambas.

On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 2:40 PM Fabien Bodard <gambas.fr at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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