Re: digiKam availability as Flatpak/Snap

Posted by Gilles Caulier-4 on Jan 16, 2020; 3:01pm
URL: http://digikam.185.s1.nabble.com/digiKam-availability-as-Flatpak-Snap-tp4711122p4711134.html

Le jeu. 16 janv. 2020 à 15:20, Ihor Dvoretskyi <[hidden email]> a écrit :

The digiKam snap exists as well - https://snapcraft.io/digikam, but it's maintained by someone else, not by the KDE project itself (or not by Gilles, for example). So, I would not trust it as it is not an official digiKam release artifact.

So, strategically my question is more a request to have the officially supported and maintained by the digiKam project Flatpak and Snap packages.

The response is no... if no other person do not do the job. For the moment, i maintain AppImage, Windows and MacOS bundles. I cannot do more than this... Maintaining these packages take a while.

I'm not to much interested by the cloud delegation to build this kind of packages, as we will lost to most important point : to know all the in-deep details to assemble optimized bundles accordingly with the reports posted by users on bugzilla.

All the bundles are built on my computers at home and it work like a charm now (more and less), after 3 years of development. It's not perfect, but if we delegate this kind of job, we will inherit of other projects dependencies/constrains. We needs flexibility, not complexity.

 

Best

Gilles Caulier