FYI, There is already a Flatpak and a Snap available, but it looks like both are still at 2.6.x
https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.gnucash.GnuCash https://snapcraft.io/gnucash-jz I don’t see a size on the Flatpak, but the Snap is a tad under 111MB. Interestingly, the .dmg went from ≈112MB to ≈184MB and the .exe went from ≈120MB down to ≈94MB from 2.6.21 to 3.1. Regards, Adrien > On May 10, 2018, at 4:42 PM, cicko <alen.sil...@gmx.com> wrote: > > I just learned a bit more about application packages (AppImage, Snap, > Flatpak) on Linux after downloading KeePassXC image and find them quite > convenient. > Nabble does not find anything if I search for AppImage so I'd like to see > you opinion about using one of these for distributing Linux version of > GnuCash. I've only used AppImage so far and it works fine. Apparently it > would work on any distribution because all the libraries are packaged with > the executable. > If this was applied to GnuCash, would the distribution size be much larger? > Has anyone tried? > Even though I'm on Tumbleweed, a rolling OpenSuse distribution with the > apparently latest software, GnuCash 3.1 is still not available as a > compatible rpm. Somehow, the distribution of software for Windows still has > the upper hand in terms of being easy and simple. At least for the end > users. > Having an AppImage of the latest GnuCash would, I guess, enable all Linux > users to have the latest binary version without needing to build it > themselves and/or depending on multitude of development tools and libraries. > > Is there anything preventing building and packaging the latest (either > stable or nightly) version of GnuCash in this way? Have you thought about it > before? Have you tried it already? What were the findings? > > Cheers > > > > -- > Sent from: http://gnucash.1415818.n4.nabble.com/GnuCash-Dev-f1435356.html > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel