Hi Jan, I agree that not everything should be in there. That's why I didn't list dependencies like postgres, proj4, geos, gdal and many more.
The main goal I have here is to minimize the maintenance overhead by finding the best way to generalize runtimes. E.g. QtLocation is a core Qt module, so I think they should be part of a runtime that targets to be the runtime for "most Qt-based applications as well". Another approach would be to have a generic Qt runtime on top of which a separate KDE runtime can be built and another one we manage for our dependencies. I'm open for all kind of clever ideas. All the best Matthias On 11/14/2016 12:57 PM, Jan Grulich wrote: > Hi, > > if you add your additional dependencies which are not in KDE's flatpak > runtime > currently, then I guess it won't have any difference for your users. They > will > either have to download a runtime requiring more space or an app bundle/repo > requiring extra space due to QtLocation, QCA and so on. My personal opinion > is > that we should cover the most needed stuff for most of the KDE/Qt > applications, while keep the extra dependencies in application manifests > itself, avoiding to make our runtime unnecesarily huge. Anyway, it's not me > who takes care currently of KDE/Qt flatpak runtime, so not my decision. > > Regards, > Jan > > On pondělí 14. listopadu 2016 12:44:42 CET Matthias Kuhn wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm a developer of QGIS [1] which makes heavy use of Qt libraries. I was >> very happy to see the work on a KDE flatpak repository which already >> packages Qt [2]. >> >> I have recently been looking into a couple of different approaches to >> ship app bundles and flatpak sounds like a very interesting one. >> >> To not duplicate work I would like to ask if there is interest for a >> collaboration. In particular, for our needs: >> >> * We require the QtLocation module. Are there plans for adding this? >> I will be happy to share a trivial patch that adds this. >> >> * We also require other components which are closely related to Qt: >> Qt Cryptographic Architecture (QCA), QWT, QScintilla, PyQt5, would >> you be interested in integrating them into this repository as well? >> >> Kind regards >> Matthias >> >> [1] http://qgis.org >> [2] https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Flatpak >
