08-10-2021, 09:55 AM
(08-10-2021, 09:05 AM)wibble Wrote: I'm not clear on whether you're aiming for a system that makes native packages for each distro, distro-agnostic ones like appimage or flatpak, or a combination of both so people can pick the option that best suits them. Having repeatable builds like F-droid would be good.
I really want to have the discussion asking the same questions you bring up and form a consensus what we want and how to provide that.
I think an autobuilder for native is always the ideal but that might be difficult and would require quite a bit of cooperation from each OS for packages they are not ready to approve on their own repos.
Then flatpak, I am not sold on it yet, but it is better than say snaps where it kludges my df with a bunch of virtual file systems and seems to update nicely so I am warming.
I think a nice desktop browsable website interface and the behind the scenes builder machinery that f-droid is doing is a sort of ideal so I hope whatever we end up doing to share the contributions of mobile linux app writers across most of the Pine and hopefully other Linux mobile OSs.
I think website guides and youtubes on how to make an easy Phosh app and some nice easy flowcharted python app examples that people can cut/paste and modify would help beginners start cranking out basic apps which will hopefully mature.
I feel like the Maemo example where the repos had nearly the variety you see in the Android store was a testament to what you can get if you make development easy, though it also attracted devs as it was supposed to also be a Nokia's upcoming competitor to Android and apple.
