743
Flatpak haters seem to believe that if an app isn't on their distro's repos, it's the developers' fault.
(lemmy.world)
this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2024
743 points (94.0% liked)
linuxmemes
21410 readers
789 users here now
Hint: :q!
Sister communities:
Community rules (click to expand)
1. Follow the site-wide rules
- Instance-wide TOS: https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
- Lemmy code of conduct: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/code_of_conduct.html
2. Be civil
- Understand the difference between a joke and an insult.
- Do not harrass or attack members of the community for any reason.
- Leave remarks of "peasantry" to the PCMR community. If you dislike an OS/service/application, attack the thing you dislike, not the individuals who use it. Some people may not have a choice.
- Bigotry will not be tolerated.
- These rules are somewhat loosened when the subject is a public figure. Still, do not attack their person or incite harrassment.
3. Post Linux-related content
- Including Unix and BSD.
- Non-Linux content is acceptable as long as it makes a reference to Linux. For example, the poorly made mockery of
sudoin Windows. - No porn. Even if you watch it on a Linux machine.
4. No recent reposts
- Everybody uses Arch btw, can't quit Vim, and wants to interject for a moment. You can stop now.
Please report posts and comments that break these rules!
Important: never execute code or follow advice that you don't understand or can't verify, especially here. The word of the day is credibility. This is a meme community -- even the most helpful comments might just be shitposts that can damage your system. Be aware, be smart, don't fork-bomb your computer.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
I just distribute it as a self-contained executable/archive. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Valid solution, but I miss unified updates with appimages and such
Yeah, that's the fun part. Hooking into some auto-update mechanism would be useful to me.
But my stuff is mostly in the scratching-my-own-itch stage, so setting up a FlatHub account, Flatpak metadata, sandbox rules, probably an icon and screenshots and whatnot, and automating the build+releases, just to get auto-updates, yeah... no.
I could code a whole nother project in the time that would take.
load more comments
(3 replies)
As long as your application is statically linked, I don't see any issue with that.
So, like, dumb question. People here assumed that I mean AppImages, whereas I actually meant just a statically linked binary. Is that really the only reason why AppImage exists? So, that dynamically linked applications can be distributed like statically linked ones?
You cannot statically link everything. Take graphics libraries and APIs for example, do you statically link against nvidia's or mesa's opengl?
load more comments
(5 replies)
The majority of AppImages I've seen have been dynamically linked, yes. But it's also used for packaging assets.
load more comments
(1 replies)
load more comments
(1 replies)
load more comments
(1 replies)
Nix: you package it yourself and do a pull request
Sadly, many flatpaks don't even work on NixOS properly because of assumptions about the file structure or similar
load more comments
(1 replies)