Re: Improving the way we build nightly apps

[Sébastien Wilmet <swilmet gnome org>]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 05:18:55PM -0600, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-02-28 at 11:44 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > So far, we have this gnome-nightly-apps repository which contains
> > copies of the flatpak manifests for a bunch of gnome apps. That is
> > redundant and suboptimal. Recently, flatpak has gained the ability to
> > find manifests in git repositories that you point it to, and we
> > should use this to move the json files to each applications git tree.
> > Quite possibly there is already a copy of it there anyway.
> >
> > If you want to help out with making this happen, the details are
> > described here:
> >
> > https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/GnomeGoals/FlatpakManifests
>
> This is clearly superior to how we build the flatpaks now.
>
> On the other hand, these manifests should hopefully be obsoleted soon
> by BuildStream.

I don't know how soon it'll be. The Flatpak manifest goal is a small
goal (the files are even already written, it's just moving them and
doing small edits). If it's useful during 6 months or one year, that's
already worthwhile. It's easy to remove the Flatpak manifests once (and
if) BuildStream becomes the preferred way.

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Sébastien