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

[Mica Semrick]

Yes, it is possible to have multiple version of the same application installed at the same time.

In addition, the updates come from a repo and can be updated along with everything else.on your system via Discover or gnome software. Or, from the CLI using "flatpak update".

I've worked on quite a few flatpak applications, RawTherapee, darktable, and geeqie, and I find that once the initial packaging is done, it is quite easy to maintain over time.

On May 24, 2020 10:44:35 AM PDT, Andrey Goreev <aegoreev at gmail.com> wrote:
>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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