feature request: make flatpack or snap binaries

[smoser]

Hi,
I came upon fre:ac and thought i'd give it a try. I downloaded the pre-built tarball and extracted. a 'ldd' showed I was missing several dependencies.

Solutions to this dependency issue are available in snap or flatpack.
Both flatpack and snap provide additional benefits from the security perspective.

Have you considered building either? http://snapcraft.io has information on how to get started with snap, and https://flatpak.org/hello-world for flatpack.

[stpr-dev]

Would also like to throw in AppImage as an alternative.

[enzo1982]

Creating packages is not a high priority for me as long as fre:ac 1.1 is still alpha. I plan to pursue this after the beta 1 and before the final fre:ac 1.1 release.

If someone else would like to help package fre:ac for Flatpak or Snap earlier, please go ahead. I guess this would be a good item for new contributors.

[enzo1982]

FWIW, I've started building a Flatpak package of the latest fre:ac alpha. It should be ready soon.

Will look at Snap next.

[enzo1982]

fre:ac is now available on Flathub!

[probonopd]

@CollectorGeneral

Would also like to throw in AppImage as an alternative.

We are working on it:
#31

[enzo1982]

fre:ac is now available as a Snap too.

I'll leave this ticket open as AppImage support has been requested as well. I will work on that now. Thanks to the work already done @probonopd, this should be available soon.

[stpr-dev]

@probonopd Your work is much appreciated :). I prefer the AppImage format and making it available will be a huge help!

[enzo1982]

AppImages of the 20181201a release are now available here.

I will now work on integrating @probonopd's PR for building continuously building AppImages for every commit.

[enzo1982]

Continuous AppImage builds are now available at https://github.com/enzo1982/freac/releases/tag/continuous.

The build infrastructure will also be used for upcoming releases.

Closing this ticket.