Drop snap for Flatpak (or an AppImage) (for Linux)

[helium18]

As the title suggests. Snap should be dropped for Flatpak support. Flatpak runs on all gnu/linux distributions and is completely open sourced. Snaps also perform horribly. There's a general dislike for snap among linux users.

It becomes a huge barrier for me to install this without build instructions and then seeing that snap is the only installation medium, and I'm sure that there are other people like me on this platform, who'd like to use this app but are limited by the installation mediums.

I think, with flatpak OR an appimage (or both preferably) massCode will be able to target all linux users.

[antonreshetov]

Unfortunately, I am a maс user and can not test all platforms. I tried to make a build to .AppImage, .deb, but when I start the application just a white screen. At the same time snap works.

[grzesiek1owline]

@CRBroughton thanks! deb file works fine on PopOs (distro based on Ubuntu).

[grzesiek1owline]

@CRBroughton can You create appImage from newest version? ;>

[CRBroughton]

@grzesiek1owline there are now auto-built ones here:

https://github.com/CRBroughton/massCode/releases

[agmeiner-bhs]

@CRBroughton: Did you stopp the auto-built? think there is still the need for flatpaks...

[CRBroughton]

@AndreasGmeinerBHS I did; I'm no longer using the application. The requirements above to add additional package types like appimage are simple enough. I can't remember if I had trouble with the last attempt to bundle it to an appimage, but that might of been partially the reason I stopped doing so.

[antonreshetov]

I started the discussion here - #87

[mbnoimi]

+1
Flatpak or/and Appimage