system wide electron package

[Johnnynator]

Test repo: https://void.johnnynator.dev/electron/

to do: reintroduce system zlib patch
to do: electron8 package for all the other electron apps
to do: bring the template more in line with the chromium one stile wise

Thanks to @Cogitri who did prepare most of this work

P.s. I'm already sorry for the build server to get a 3rd chromium package to build occasionally.

[Anachron]

Pretty impressive. I wonder if we can find something better than _electronver=7.2.3.

[ericonr]

Should the xbps-src config commit be here?

[Johnnynator]

Pretty impressive. I wonder if we can find something better than _electronver=7.2.3.

I could workaround by using

_electronver=$(xbps-uhelper version electron7)
_electronver=${_electronver%_*}

on top of every function

[fosslinux]

Nice! What's the current status?

[Johnnynator]

The current status are 2 things:
a) Wasn't able to figure cross out yet (also counts for chromium) (Would give more justification for this)
b) I'm kinda hesitant at more packages to the repo that take 12h to build on the build servers. But I also dislike shipping upstream binaries if not needed.

[fosslinux]

a) Fair enough -- I am looking at chromium cross myself actually, but it isn't trivial.
b) I get that but IMO it's better than shipping upstream binaries...

[Johnnynator]

@void-linux/pkg-committers Any comments adding a few more chromium version to the repo? (a few more = up to 3 more or so)

[Duncaen]

imho better than adding binary packages.

[fosslinux]

Any way for me to help? I really would like this package

a) Wasn't able to figure cross out yet (also counts for chromium) (Would give more justification for this)

Regarding cross, I think its OK for now for it to be nocross and come back to it when we figure out chromium cross, I don't think it needs to be a blocker.

[fosslinux]

Woo!

[kedodrill]

Woo!

Bit confused here, as this is closed I assume it did not make it into master? Or is the push / merge process different somehow?

[Duncaen]

The PR was closed with a commit bb5f851.