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

[Sebastián Kulesz]

Well, I just tested the latest version with this snapcraft file and it
worked, I was able to launch the IDE.
It seems that very little work is needed to finish the package :)

Regards

On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 8:46 PM Sebastián Kulesz <sebikul at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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