Re: digiKam availability as Flatpak/Snap

Posted by Gilles Caulier-4 on Jan 16, 2020; 12:27pm
URL: http://digikam.185.s1.nabble.com/digiKam-availability-as-Flatpak-Snap-tp4711122p4711125.html

Le jeu. 16 janv. 2020 à 12:40, Ihor Dvoretskyi <[hidden email]> a écrit :

I know that this was discussed some time ago (http://digikam.1695700.n4.nabble.com/flatpak-kde-applications-Add-digikam-to-our-nightly-flatpak-builds-td4704276.html#none), but I'd like to get the current status. Any plans of the digiKam community to make the digiKam software be available as snap (http://snapcraft.io/) or Flatpak (https://flatpak.org/) packages?

No, as AppImage to maintain take a while...

It is clear that the Appimages exist, but Appimage has its own limitations. Specifically, there is no automated way to track the release changes and automatically upgrade the local version of the software - you have to go to the website and download a new version of digiKam every time when it's released. So, I'm fine with using Appimages, but they have their own limitations.

I have discovered that it's a common practice for the various projects from the KDE ecosystem to be released as the Flatpak packages (https://flathub.org/apps/search/kde) and snaps (https://snapcraft.io/search?q=kde), so it would be great to have digiKam available in one of those (or both) formats someday.

Yes it is, and with with the binaries factory from KDE, there is a job to build the flatpack stuff :

https://binary-factory.kde.org/view/Flatpak/job/Digikam_flatpak/

But it's not created and maintained by digiKam team. So help is welcome to improve this topic. Typically, KDE team must be contacted through Phabricator web interface to ask puzzle changes in the DK flatpack workflow...

https://phabricator.kde.org/project/view/218/

Best

Gilles Caulier