Re: [Evolution] Flatpack in source repository

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Sat, 2020-06-06 at 09:56 +1000, Ian Willis wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I started reviewing the code and noticed the inclusion of a flatpack
> directory. Should packaging information such as rpms, debs etc also be
> included into the source repository as patches? Is there any
> documentation which packaging formats should be included in source and
> which ones are excluded, it seems odd to have just one. Or are
> flatpacks somehow different?

There are many packaging formats and packaging decisions are up to the
various distro maintainers, not to the Evo developers.

Flatpaks (sic) are different. A flatpak is a self-supported container
which includes everything needed to run Evo, so the same flatpak will
run on any Linux distro without modification. The downside is that it
will run in an isolated sandbox, so is mostly independent of the
underlying desktop environment.

poc