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

[Andrej Kacian]

On Tue, 27 Aug 2019 19:38:28 +0200
Danny van Heumen wrote:

> 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.)

You can inspire yourself by reading any of the usual Linux distro
packages, they all list dependencies, as well as steps to build Claws
Mail itself.

You can also look at our Windows port repository, which does something
similar to Flatpak - an installable package containing Claws Mail,
together with all the required libraries (minus the native Windows
ones, of course).

I cannot promise anything regarding building and hosting the resulting
Flatpak recipe, but you're free to contribute it to flathub.org as an
unofficial package.

P.S. There's no need to send your replies both to me *and* to the
mailing list, I am subscribed to the list. :)

Regards,
-- 
Andrej
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