On Saturday, 28 September 2019 at 09:00:51 UTC, drug wrote:
28.09.2019 5:15, Hossain Adnan пишет:
On Wednesday, 25 September 2019 at 11:46:04 UTC, Ron Tarrant
wrote:
Hi y'all,
I've been Googling how to do this, but coming up with nothing
definitive. Are there any articles for how to do this for:
Linux?
For Linux there are 3 new options:
1. Appimages (https://appimage.org/): This is very similar to
Window's msi installer. You can host the app installer binary
in bintray or in your website.
2. Flatpaks (https://flatpak.org/): Flatpak is quickly
becoming more and more popular as it provides higher level
customization for desktop applications in Linux. The flatpak
API is not trivial but there are tutorials available to use
flatpak and meson. A well known Linux application named Tilix
(https://github.com/gnunn1/tilix) has a flatpak repo
(https://github.com/gnunn1/tilix/tree/master/experimental/flatpak).
3. Snap (https://snapcraft.io/): Backed by Cannonical, snap
provides a really easy way to distribute applications in
Linux. I personally think Snaps are easier to create although
I haven't invested time in distributing an app using snap.
DMD, Dub and LDC are also shipped with it.
There are tutorials for using all of those three online, but
not specific to Dlang. But if you use the Meson build system
there are plenty of tutorials available.
don't you consider deb and rpm as options?
My understanding is that the goal is to move away from
distribution-specific packaging with these projects.
