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

[Danny van Heumen]

I'm sorry to hear that.

Is there any way I can help with this? I'm not guaranteeing anything
yet, but I would be interested to look into it. However, I am not
familiar with building claws-mail etc. at all.

What I am thinking is, I suspect there is a single "recipe" that should
be maintained. Maybe I can see if we can write the "recipe" once and
see if we can take it up as part of the build process?

Do you have something like a build process right now?

If so, would you be able to give some assistance in case of questions?

Actually, come to think about it. The Flatpak solution might be more
attractive in the long run as it covers a larger number of distros.
(That is, assuming that flatpak and similar packaging formats won't
fail miserably.)

Kind regards,
Danny



On Tue, 27 Aug 2019 18:31:46 +0200
Andrej Kacian <ticho at claws-mail.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Aug 2019 15:13:19 +0200
> Danny van Heumen wrote:
> 
> > 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?  
> 
> Hey, we don't even have manpower to maintain an Ubuntu PPA, so unless
> someone from the developers team is personally interested in using
> such flatpak package, the chances of it happening are pretty slim,
> sorry. :)
> 
> Regards,