Re: digiKam availability as Flatpak/Snap

Posted by AndriusWild on Jan 16, 2020; 12:37pm
URL: http://digikam.185.s1.nabble.com/digiKam-availability-as-Flatpak-Snap-tp4711122p4711128.html

Gilles,

Is it a big deal to make digikam notify users about new version similar to how Libreoffice does?

I personally got used to visiting digikam.org and looking for a new version every once in a while.

But I see why some people get frustrated.

Just an idea.

Thanks,

Andrey

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.

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From: Gilles Caulier <[hidden email]>

Date: 2020-01-16 5:30 a.m. (GMT-07:00)

To: digiKam developers room - digiKam - Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <[hidden email]>

Subject: Re: digiKam availability as Flatpak/Snap

It's normal : the flatpack build job is broken :

https://binary-factory.kde.org/view/Flatpak/job/Digikam_flatpak/403/console

Due to a too old Exiv2 package from the infrastructure...

Gilles Caulier

Le jeu. 16 janv. 2020 à 13:28, Gilles Caulier <[hidden email]> a écrit :

No result on flathub :

https://flathub.org/apps/search/digikam

Gilles

Le jeu. 16 janv. 2020 à 13:24, Andrey Goreev <[hidden email]> a écrit :

Ihor,

I think digiKam is available on flathub. 

I have seen digikam flatpak on one of the KDE websites for sure.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.

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From: Ihor Dvoretskyi <[hidden email]>

Date: 2020-01-16 4:40 a.m. (GMT-07:00)

To: "digiKam developers room - digiKam: Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source" <[hidden email]>

Subject: digiKam availability as Flatpak/Snap

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?

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.