OS Bundles

[gokayokyay]

Hello!
First of all, thanks for the amazing project. ❤️ I really appreciate for your efforts to save us from lots of cpu usage (no offense electron's awesome too just a little heavy).
When do you plan to create OS specific bundles? Compilation of the release profile is way too slow. Takes up to an hour with a 1 gig linux instance.

[jpochyla]

Hi! Thanks, that's great to hear. Platform bundles are definitely on the roadmap, once we have a CI (GitHub actions?) working.

[gokayokyay]

Hmm okay then I'll fork and try some stuff with actions, but won't promise anything 😄

[jpochyla]

We now have Ubuntu and Mac CI working, and the artifacts (just naked executables for now) are available at the run page.

[SudoVanilla]

I mean, I guessing seeing a DEB, AppImage, Flatpak, or maybe a Snap file would be nice.

[TheEvilSkeleton]

Just created a Flatpak manifest: #141. I'm awaiting for approval so it creates a Flatpak bundle.

[reesericci]

AppImages anyone?

[cedws]

I want to create a Scoop manifest but the project would need to adopt Releases for this to be viable. Well, that's not entirely true, but pulling a "nightly" binary in a package is not really any good.

Any possibility of this?

[jpochyla]

I was planning to start releasing once we reach a certain feature set, most probably including Connect support, playlist manipulation, and once we solve the audio-related problems (device switching, audio buffer underruns on high CPU). I should reify these somehow as a Milestone here.

[reesericci]

Flatpak seems to be pulling away in the Linux packaging sphere. I now believe that Flatpak is the best option for Psst.

[SudoVanilla]

Flatpak is the best bet, meaning pushing it to Flathub will be a good idea.

[TheEvilSkeleton]

We could directly package it to Flathub. That's what OBS Studio did obsproject/obs-studio#5569.

[SO9010]

@jpochyla is the still an issue as we have got the downloads section?

[Peque]

@jacksongoode It seems that #170 was closed as duplicate of this issue (#16).

Is Psst available via Flatpak/Flathub? (I haven't been able to find it in Flathub)

[SO9010]

@Peque it's not available yet, the reason for closing this issue is due to the fact that there is an easy downloads section. But Ill have a quick look at porting the build to flathub and then perhaps we can submit it to be in the official repository.

[Peque]

@SO9010 Thanks! I opened #530 to track this issue (#170 seemed like just mentioned Flatpak, but the one I opened suggests using Flathub as a way to distribute the package). 😊