Re: About application distribution in GNU/Linux

[Alan Mead]

Charles,

The place to discuss this with developers is pspp-dev.

The PSPP devs can speak for themselves, but I think that they would/will say that packaging PSPP is now what they do.  So, if you or someone else wanted to package PSPP using flagpak, I think they would welcome that and support it by answering questions.  But the only official release PSPP makes is to drop a source tarball onto the GNU FTP server.

Regarding flatpak, I'm not familiar with it, but it looks like a container system. Is that right?  What specific problem would flatpak solve that is plaguing PSPP?

-Alan

On 5/30/2016 2:16 PM, Charles Johnson wrote:

Hi, I wanted to propose a topic that has been in debate for the -rushed- release of Snap, the new packages system by Canonical in Ubuntu 16.04.  https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/04/13/snaps-for-classic-ubuntu/

Moreover, Flatpak (aka xdg-app) is the distribution package system closer to becoming a standard in gnu/linux because of its performance and independently of the operating system for proper operation. http://flatpak.org/

Both systems are functional but are now awaiting complementary technologies such as Wayland/MIR, however, Flatpak is available in most distributions (Ubuntu included). There are several applications packaged as Flatpack and even some LibreOffice developers have long been testing this system to distribute its software https://whatofhow.wordpress.com/2016/05/13/libreoffice-flatpak/

I think it would be very good idea to consider PSPP developers distribute as a Flatpak package officially, as it would be available in most distributions with its latest updates. What do you think?

If a PSPP developer has read this what do you think about that?

CJT

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