Greetings,
I’ve been Linux distro shopping a bit, and one of the things that has jumped out at me, in relation to the Ubuntu universe, is the almost universal adoption of flatpaks as application “format”.
Not to get into a war over the “best” solution for this task, I have to ask is there any chance of ART being available as a flatpak?
Thanks
sure, someone just has to package it.
You know,
I think it’s time for me to walk away from this forum lest I reply what jumped into my head in response to your flippant reply.
This isn’t the first time you have responded to me thusly, but it will be the last.
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
I see how it could be taken as flippant, but it’s accurate. You, me, anyone with the time and knowledge could do it. It’s FOSS, anyone is free to do it.
@paperdigits just stated a fact. We’re in this together. If not you or someone else decides to make a Flatpak, there will be no Flatpak.
I’m sorry that you took offense to me comment; none was meant.
Honestly, what did you think the response to “can you please perform some unpaid skilled labor so I can have my perfered thing?” was going to be?
Read the post.
I wasn’t asking for someone to do it.
I was asking if it was on the horizon.
A reasonable response would never been;
“Unfortunately no one is working that at present”.
See the difference in antagonism levels in the responses?
Have a lovely day
Not really, as I already said, my answer was not meant to be antagonistic.
Hi,
No, it’s not, sorry. I don’t know the technicalities of the format, and I have no interest in learning. So, it will never be supported unless someone else does it.
I hope this clarifies!
That’s a reading of the original post that is full of implicit assumptions that are not warranted.
One can ask a question about planned features of a FOSS project for a lot of other reasons, including inquiry (no pressure implied, really just asking), coordination (to check if someone is working on a feature before contributing), etc.
Even if you believe that someone is pressuring the actual contributors, it is best to let the latter respond to that. My understanding is that you are not a contributor to ART (sorry if I missed it), so I am not sure why you thought that anyone was asking you to do any work.
Regarding the original issue: @doobs, if you are interested in taking this up, flatpaks are not that complicated. There is a tutorial, I usually try to find a similar application and copy & modify their approach. Since ART is similar to Rawtherapee, one could look at the Flathub recipe for the latter.