All About the Apps Goal

[Christoph Cullmann]

On 2021-04-23 21:04, Ben Cooksley wrote:
>> My personal suggestion would be to pick a few applications and try
>> to work
>> with them to get the tooling up. E.g. Krita, Kate, KWrite and
>> Okular. And try
>> to automate. Don't have the application developers maintain all
>> those
>> variants. It's too much! Maybe it's possible to get craft to a point
>> that it
>> can build for all of those platforms? Maybe it's possible to
>> generate the
>> required files directly with cmake? Give the devs one place to add
>> their
>> dependencies. Give them easy tools they know. If they have to invest
>> looking
>> into how to package for snap they will ask "what do I get over apt?"
> 
> Craft already looks after Windows and MacOS, and is developing the
> capability for Android and Appimage (which some projects are already
> using on the Binary Factory for both). Once the Android and Appimage
> stuff has matured further we'll likely start requiring projects use
> Craft rather than permitting bespoke tooling to be used.

I would prefer that, too.

I use the Craft produced installers for the Windows Store and
I hope to better test the Appimage stuff created there, too,
for Kate.

Greetings
Christoph

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