[sword-devel] Packaging Ezra Bible App for Snap and Flatpak users?

[P Mosier]

OpenSUSE (Tumbleweed) user here.

While fundamentally RPM based, I have both flatpak & snap working on it. Flatpak does work better of the two.

Thanks,
- Paul M

On January 20, 2024 6:20:16 PM EST, Aaron Rainbolt <arraybolt3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 4:27 PM Matěj Cepl <mcepl at cepl.eu> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat Jan 20, 2024 at 7:18 PM CET, Aaron Rainbolt wrote:
>> > It appears that the Ezra Bible App can only be installed using
>> > upstream packages for a select group of popular Linux distributions
>> > currently. It would be handy for users to be able to install it by
>> > using widely available repositories such as the Snap Store and
>> > Flathub. I'm fairly skilled at software packaging for distros (though
>> > I haven't done Snap or Flatpak before - I'm interested in learning how
>> > though) and am thinking about trying to make Snap and Flatpak packages
>> > for Ezra Bible App.
>>
>> Given that Snap really works only on Ubuntu (AFAIK, certainly it
>> does work neither with Fedora nor with openSUSE), then I would
>> hugely prefer Flatpak.
>
>No clue about openSUSE, but I know Snap works on Debian and I thought
>for sure it worked on Fedora (though of course you'd have to install
>snapd first, whereas it's preinstalled on Ubuntu). But still, I do
>intend on doing both Snap and Flatpak - each has a user base that the
>other one doesn't. I'll go ahead and do the Flatpak first since I now
>know someone wants a Flatpak for it :)
>
>Thanks for letting me know, and God bless.
>
>> Best,
>>
>> Matěj
>>
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