digiKam availability as Flatpak/Snap

[Ihor Dvoretskyi]

This is clear, thanks Gilles :)

On Thu, Jan 16, 2020, 5:02 PM Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>
wrote:

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>
> Le jeu. 16 janv. 2020 à 15:20, Ihor Dvoretskyi <ihor.dvoretskyi at gmail.com>
> 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
>
>
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