flatpak/snap support?

[thejezza]

I have used wings3d on Linux before, however, it only officially supports Ubuntu. Have you guys thought about releasing it as a flatpak or snap, which allows you to bypass the need for making sure users have a specific lib or binary, while supporting a whole host of Linux distributions.

[dgud]

I have read up on and experimented with flatpak some, so hopefully I could release that soonish,
but some help would be great, I don't know this stuff.

[thejezza]

Sounds good, I can’t really help, I don’t know much about it myself either, but thanks for the reply

[Hank]

(12-18-2018 06:23 AM)dgud Wrote:  I have read up on and experimented with flatpak some, so hopefully I could release that soonish,
but some help would be great, I don't know this stuff.

I just wonder if one flatpak/snap file can be run in all Linux distros or there's some limitation?
I had no bigger issue with W3D installation on Xubuntu [required additional libwxgtk3.0 files] thus flatpak or snap file would be an advantage for Linux newbies.
Additionally, last version seen in (X)ubuntu software list was 1.5.4 - why there's no 2.x available to install directly from official repo?

BR, Hank

[dgud]

Done: https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.wings3d.WINGS

[Hank]

nice!
It's good to see W3D in Linux available to install with 'one button' solution.

BR, Hank

[Ravo]

There's another option called an appimage. https://appimage.org/ In an appimage the entire program is all self contained. Dependencies, libraries, everything the program needs to run is right there. It has the overwhelming advantage over flatpak and snap that there's no extra software required, and no special software ecosystem to get it running. Download the appimage, make it executable, and run it. Any distro. The downside is of course the extra space needed since like Windows every program will have its own libraries.

I bring this up because after trying other programs that only offered snap or flatpak options I found the best way to use them was to uninstall their respective ecosystems and find different software. Even downloading the Windows version and using WINE is a better option as far as I'm concerned.

[Hank]

I tried Flatpak option with new 2.2.3 and it works, although it needs to feed additional packages (org.freedesktop.Platform/x86_64/18.08 = 240 MB!)
But I'm glad we have W3D install alternatives for other than Debian/Ubuntu distros
Thanks for processing.
BR, Hank

[dgud]

org.freedesktop.Platform/x86_64/18.08 = 240 MB
That should be the same for all (most new) flatpaks releases.
So blender and gimp will use the same.

[3dbb]

+1 for appimage
I use a computer with an 8g ssd for mx-18 linux distro.
it's just enough to keep the distro up to date, but not big enough for installed apps. I use a a usb drive to run all the programs I use in appimage format. this way all my programs are portable on an external usb drive. the only thing the disro stores in my home dir are preference files.

I have tried many times to create my own appimage of wings, but lack the programming skill to get it to work. This would really be helpfull.