For Linux AppImage claims to be the "solution" (even with a quote of Linus Torvalds)^: https://appimage.org/

I am maintaining a project done in Python, and I use the same format for all systems (pip, from source code tar).
This way I don't care about making installers. But of course, the target audience are software testers :).



On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 4:05 PM Sven Schreiber <sven.schreiber@fu-berlin.de> wrote:
Am 31.10.2023 um 16:40 schrieb Hélio Guilherme:
Just my opinion.

I am very conservative about package formats, or managers.
I hate snap, and flatpack is second in the list. There is also AppImage, and I don't like it either..
From my limited experience, I'm not too enthusiastic about Snap, either. But I'm not sure that the situation is comparable.

I would stay in plain RPMs or DEBs.

Well, to my knowledge there are no plans to abandon rpm or deb. In fact, the gretl versions are not directly released in those formats, anyway. That is done by the (excellent) distro packagers, spontaneously the names Dirk Eddelbüttel and Johannes Lips come to mind, and I apologize to those others whom I'm forgetting.

If I'm not mistaken, the release formats from the gretl project in the narrow sense are *nix source tarballs, Windows installers, and MacOS packages (disk images or whatever they're called these days). Any Flatpak or Nix packages would come on top of that, that's why the question is whether it's worth the effort.

cheers

sven

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