Krita-Devbox: A complete Krita development environment in a box!

[Emmet O'Neill]

Hey all,

So... last weekend Eoin got a new laptop and installed Fedora Kinoite (an
immutable/atomic Fedora-based OS with KDE Plasma) on it.
Similarly, I've been running Fedora Silverblue (basically the same
immutable/atomic OS but running Gnome) on my laptop for a few months.

This got us thinking about ways that we might be able to improve the
containerized (Docker-based) Krita development workflow that Dmitry has
been using.

So this week we started a little project we're calling Krita Devbox
<https://invent.kde.org/eoinoneill/krita-devbox>:

> Based on Distrobox <https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox> (which manages
> Docker/Podman containers), Krita Devbox is intended to provide a consistent
> and easy-to-use development container that comes with everything you need
> to develop Krita, write documentation, produce AppImages, and so on. A key
> goal for Krita Devbox is to be as simple to setup and use as possible by
> integrating with the host system (when it makes sense), and otherwise
> exporting a flexible, human-readable interface to the host system.
>
> Also, while Krita Devbox is being made with atomic operating systems like
> Fedora Kinoite/Silverblue in mind, we hope it'll be useful in the future to
> anybody who is interested in developing for Krita.
>
There are still some kinks to work out and I'm sure a lot of improvements
can be made, but the basic idea is that in just a couple of commands you
can get a fully functional Krita development container up and running.
(Even on an atomic OS!)
Thanks to Distrobox it integrates with the host system in convenient ways
that make it more user-friendly than working directly with Docker.
We've also made a `krita-devbox` helper script that is meant to do a lot of
common Krita dev tasks in a single command.

For example, how about `krita-devbox build --appimage
/path/to/krita/source` to produce an AppImage of whatever is currently in
your source tree? ;)

Eoin and I will probably be using this heavily in the future for our Krita
development, and I hope you'll all check it out and let us know what you
think.
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