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

[Michal Suchánek]

On Tue, 27 Aug 2019 19:38:28 +0200
Danny van Heumen <danny at dannyvanheumen.nl> 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.)

It is already failing miserably form security perspective. If all GTK
applications share the GTK library and it has a security issue you fix
it once and all your GTK applications are fixed.

With Flatpak if you install 20 GTK applications you get 20 copies of
GTK (and its image loades, font libraries, and whatnot). Every time an
issue is found packager of each and every Flatpak application needs to
apply a fix to the bundled libraries the application depends on.

This does not scale very well. It takes up a lot of disk space, too.

Thanks

Michal