[Users] Consider packaging claws-mail as flatpak distributable?

[Danny van Heumen]

On Tue, 27 Aug 2019 15:13:19 +0200
Danny van Heumen <danny at dannyvanheumen.nl> wrote:

> Hi claws-mail team and other users,
> 
> As you'll have noticed, some different packaging formats, like Snap,
> AppImage and Flatpak have emerged over the last years. These are
> package formats that package an app together with most of its
> dependencies. I do not believe claws-mail is package in such an
> package format already.
> 
> Have you considered package claws-mail as such?
> 
> Would you be open to the possibility?

For more information on flatpak:
- Flathub, the main repository, has a consumer-facing "store" at
  https://flathub.org/home
- Information regarding app submission and review can be found on the
  wiki: https://github.com/flathub/flathub/wiki

A Flatpak app would be available to multiple distributions at once. See
https://flatpak.org/setup/ for the list of distributions (that have
set-up instructions on flatpak.org).

> 
> Kind regards,
> Danny
> 
> PS: My reason for this request specifically:
> I am currently evaluating / "playing around with" Fedora Silverblue, a
> distribution that works with a small base image as an immutable root
> filesystem, where updates happen as revisions, similar to how git's
> commit graph works. Traditional package management is not recommended
> to be used here, and ideally should not be used at all. Flatpaks,
> given that these are isolated image, are the recommended way of
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