Commits on Dec 14, 2016

1. Support building Flatpak bundles …

   This adds support for building Flatpak application bundles, which should be
   runnable on any Linux distribution with Flatpak support. See the page at
   http://flatpak.org/getting.html
   
   New Gulp tasks are added to prepare a directory with the needed files
   (vscode-linux-${arch}-prepare-flatpak), assembling the Flatpak bundles
   (vscode-linux-${arch}-flatpak), and for cleaning the build directories
   (clean-vscode-linux-${arch}-flatpak). This mimics how the Debian and RPM
   package creation works. Hence, building an application bundle is done with:
   
     $ gulp vscode-linux-x64-flatpak
     [...]
     $ ls *.flatpak
     com.visualstudio.code.oss-x86_64.flatpak
   
   Installing and running the application is achieved with:
   
     $ flatpak --user install --bundle com.visualstudio.code.oss-x86_64.flatpak
     $ flatpak run com.visualstudio.code.oss
   
   (Removing "--user" would install the application system-wide. Also note that
   the "org.freedesktop.Platform" runtime needs to be installeed, check the
   Flatpak website for instructions.)
   
   The "flatpak-bundler" development dependency provides an asynchronous API to
   invoke "flatpak-builder". The "gulp-image-resize" module is used to
   incorporate scaling of the application icon to multiple sizes, and uses
   ImageMagick (or GraphicsMagick) under the hood, which is commonly available on
   most GNU/Linux distributions.
   
   Instead of building the Electron dependencies ourselves, this uses the
   io.atom.electron.BaseApp bundle as base application.
   
   Instead of building the Electron dependencies, this reuses the
   "io.atom.electron.BaseApp" bundle as base application. The contents of the
   base application are imported at build time, and then Electron and the
   prepared files added on top. The prebuilt base application will be fetched
   automatically using the URL specified in the "baseFlatpakref" attribute of the
   manifest, and it is kindly hosted at Amazon S3 by Endless Computers
   (https://endlessm.com). The sources for the base application can be found at:
   
     https://github.com/endlessm/electron-flatpak-base-app/

   

   aperezdc committed Dec 14, 2016
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