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Let me rephrase that. Major kudos to these guys for enduring distributing their software properly on Linux!
by teamhappy 9y ago
Let me rephrase that.
Major kudos to these guys for enduring distributing their software properly on Linux!
- gkya 9y agoIt's easy to write a PKGBUILD for Arch, and IDK RPM but writing a Debian package is not that hard too, I've written a .deb that installs all the software I use on Ubuntu Gnome and it's just a directory and two or three files. Its docs could use a bit of help though, the Debian handbook is sometimes very superficial.
- gcp 9y agoWell, offering a repo is yet another step further than just putting a .deb on the website.
- mattl 9y agoWould you share how you made that deb? Sounds useful.
- hexmiles 9y agoi think the hard part is maintaining it more than creating it. Library dependency and testing. There is a lot more than just creating a package.
- favadi 9y agoIn the past few months, I see some popular linux softwares started to using AppImage (https://appimage.org/ https://appimage.org/) to distribute prebuilt binary. Not sure if it is a good option for SublimeText.
- Sir_Cmpwn 9y agoI'm not a big fan of AppImage. It takes everything good about static linking and then fucks it all up.
- catwell 9y agoThat's what electro-build does by default. It's a terrible solution for end users, because it results in huge bloated statically-linked images, but at least it works everywhere. I do prefer what Sublime Text is doing here though. Kudos to them, it's a lot of work.
- AsyncAwait 9y agoI vastly prefer it to hunting for executables on websites, thank you. And there isn't that many relevant distress to target, especially with things like Flatpack etc.