[digiKam-users] Future of digiKam bundles...

Andrey Goreev aegoreev at gmail.com
Sun May 24 18:44:35 BST 2020


Is it possible to have few flatpaks of digiKam at the same time? I find
appimages handy to test new builds because they are just files in a folder
and I can pick which one to launch at any given time.

On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 11:41 AM Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>
wrote:

> yes, i can, but the changes are limited.. File is here :
>
>
> https://invent.kde.org/packaging/flatpak-kde-applications/-/blob/master/org.kde.digikam.json
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
> Le dim. 24 mai 2020 à 18:05, Andrey Goreev <aegoreev at gmail.com> a écrit :
> >
> > Will you be able to modify the flatpak build script if needs be though?
> > I noticed with appimage you can quickly rebuild to see if a commit fixed
> a bug but I am not sure if that will work with flatpak.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Andrey
> >
> >
> > On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 9:58 AM Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> yes, another one.
> >>
> >> In fact, the FlatPak choice was done by KDE team, in favor than
> >> AppImage. As KDE provide the infrastructure to build the bundle, it's
> >> more simple to deploy.
> >>
> >> You must know that all bundles, AppImage, MacOS, and Windows are build
> >> on my computers, and it's take a while. If we can delegate this build
> >> to an automatized workflow, it's better and safe for the future...
> >>
> >> Gilles Caulier
> >>
> >> Le dim. 24 mai 2020 à 17:50, jdd at dodin.org <jdd at dodin.org> a écrit :
> >> >
> >> > Le 24/05/2020 à 17:41, Gilles Caulier a écrit :
> >> > > Discover is just a solution to install a FlatPak bundle. All main
> >> > > Linux desktop will certainly provide an delegate application.
> >> > >
> >> > > More info for the sandoxed format is available here :
> >> > >
> >> > > https://flatpak.org/
> >> > >
> >> >
> >> > may be better here:
> >> >
> >> > https://flatpak.org/setup/
> >> >
> >> > (by distro)
> >> >
> >> > but yet an other repository system :-(
> >> >
> >> > jdd
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > http://dodin.org
>
-- 
Thanks,
Andrey
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