[Users] Consider packaging claws-mail as flatpak

[Brian]

Ricardo, 
The slackbuilds.org directory is a set of scripts to build applications
in a way that will load and follow the official Slackware base system
method. They are third-party scripts of programs that users
have written and desire to make available to other Slackware users.
Although the scripts are checked for consistency with the base system
by volunteers, the resulting programs are not supported by Slackware,
nor associated with the official core Slackware team.  The scripts may
actually cause issues with the base system.  
As such the programs available on slackbuilds.org are not official or
supported by Slackware.  

Slackware's official mail program is MUTT for MH support.  Or GNUMail
through emacs.  But I prefer claws-mail for its graphical interface.
Yes, claws-mail itself is not part of the Slackware core but a
slackbuild.  But I also have control of, and only one version, of the
dependencies added for claws-mail to integrate with the core system. 

After reading that flatpacks install their own set of binaries for each
version, so as to isolate the program from the core system, and
results in more disk space used by multiple copies of the same
program version dependencies, I'm not in favor of having anything
installed by flatpack. 

I'm just saying.  It doesn't interest me. Maybe others use virtual
environments and don't care if they have to blow away a
virtual machine. 

Pax tecum, absit iniuria;
Brian Amundsen, 763-786-5699
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On Tue, 03 Sep 2019 08:46:46 +0100
users-request at lists.claws-mail.org wrote:

> From: Ricardo Mones <ricardo at mones.org>
> To: users at lists.claws-mail.org
> Subject: Re: [Users] Consider packaging claws-mail as flatpak
> distributable? Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2019 10:46:43 +0200
> 
> Hi Brian,
> 
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 09:44:22AM -0500, Brian wrote:
> > Hmm, 
> > So I use Slackware Linux, the oldest and most stable Linux by
> > Patrick Volkerding, which doesn't support SNAP or FLATPAK.  
> 
> Hmm, really? https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2/desktop/flatpak/
> 
> > So moving claws-mail to a flatpak  
> 
> Keep calm and carry on, nobody has talked about moving, just adding.
> 
> > would not be beneficial to any Slackware user, it would
> > actually be a negative.  
> 
> Don't see why, I'm sure Slackware users which use flatpak consider it
> positive ;-)
> 
> > Additionally, there are dozens of Linux
> > derivatives, many which don't support SNAP or FLATPAK, so I only see
> > more maintenance not less for the Claws developers,  
> 
> At the risk of being wrong I'd say none of us will bite that apple.
> 
> > versus simply maintaining source and allowing each Linux
> > distribution to package for their native installation format.
> > Really the Linux installation standards of building from source,
> > make & make install should be all that is necessary. But
> > (sarcastically) I realize that not all Linux users want to know
> > what is going in to their system and can blindly allow an
> > application package to put whatever the packagers want.  Of course
> > this is how virus, malware are loaded and private id's are stolen,
> > but then some apparently aren't bother by that.  BUT I AM and like
> > that Linux lets me control exactly what is being installed on my
> > system.  Just my two cents....  
> 
> Mostly agreed, but other people likes to experiment, let them play :-)
> 
> regards,