I don't know, as I did not build the flatpak nor use it myself.
The flatpak would need to bundle the plugins, of course (as flatpaks bundle
everything else as well).
I guess that still needs to be tested as well as if it was possible to
install flatpaks on CentOS 7 at all.

Regards,
Dominic

On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 8:56 AM Lex Trotman via Users <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Jun 2023 at 16:21, Dominic Hopf via Users
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Also, you did not come back to my point on installing a flatpak instead.
> If it was possible for you to follow instructions like e.g. these ones that
> would be great:
> >
> > https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install-flatpak-on-centos
> >
> > Regards,
> > Dominic
>
> Does the flatpack work with the plugins?  (which was where we started).
>
> Cheers
> Lex
>
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 8:16 AM Dominic Hopf <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> So I don't have any CentOS 7 system up and running somewhere. Can you
> check if this ominous Red Hat Developer Toolset can be found on your CentOS
> 7 machine and what the package name is?
> >> If so, that still doesn't have to mean that the build servers in the
> Fedora infrastructure responsible for building EPEL packages have the same
> package available, but I can try, at least.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Dominic
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 2:57 AM H via Users <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On 06/20/2023 08:29 PM, Lex Trotman via Users wrote:
> >>> > On Wed, 21 Jun 2023 at 09:14, H via Users <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>> >> On 06/20/2023 04:10 AM, Lex Trotman via Users wrote:
> >>> >>> I accidently took us off list, added us back.
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> On Mon, 19 Jun 2023 at 23:11, Dominic Hopf <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>> >>>> So I did a quick try to build Geany 1.38 for EPEL7, right now the
> problem is that `./configure` already fails with this message:
> >>> >>>>
> >>> >>>> configure: error: *** A compiler with support for C++17 language
> features is required.
> >>> >>>> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.X4sTL9 (%build)
> >>> >>>>     Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.X4sTL9 (%build)
> >>> >>>>
> >>> >>> Ok, thats not one that is fixable in a practical sense, Scintilla
> >>> >>> versions after the 3.x.x stable versions do require C++17, and the
> >>> >>> changes between the old version and the new versions (two major
> >>> >>> versions after all) have too many changes to be practical to
> support
> >>> >>> both.
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>>> I'm afraid this is not possible to build without immense effort
> unless anyone else has an idea?
> >>> >>>> Does one of you guys know if it's possible to install flatpaks on
> CentOS 7? Probably that could be an idea then?
> >>> >>>>
> >>> >>> Well, I guess Flatsnaps, dockers or other containerised mechanisms
> >>> >>> would maybe allow for a newer C++ compiler to build against a newer
> >>> >>> runtime.  Docker is used to do the Windows cross compiles and CI
> now.
> >>> >>> Would need to run in the container too so the newer C++ runtime
> >>> >>> library was available I guess.  But I am no container expert.
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> Cheers
> >>> >>> Lex
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>>> Regards,
> >>> >>>> Dominic
> >>> >>>>
> >>> >>>> On Mon, Jun 19, 2023 at 12:36 PM Lex Trotman <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>> >>>>> On Mon, 19 Jun 2023 at 19:10, Dominic Hopf <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> >>> >>>>>> No need to ask in the RedHat Bugzilla at all as I'm reading
> here as well. ;)
> >>> >>>>>> I remember there were issues building Geany 1.38 for CentOS 7,
> but I don't remember what issues that was in detail, though.
> >>> >>>>>> I'll retry as soon as I can and will let you know. Either I can
> tell you what the issue is or probably there will be an update.
> >>> >>>>>>
> >>> >>>>> Thank you, if its a dependency thats too olde I guess there
> won't be
> >>> >>>>> much we can do, but its good to know what the problem is.
> >>> >>>>>
> >>> >>>>> Cheers
> >>> >>>>> Lex
> >>> >>>>>
> >>> >>>>>> Regards,
> >>> >>>>>> Dominic
> >>> >>>>>>
> >>> >>>>>> On Mon, Jun 19, 2023 at 3:09 AM Lex Trotman via Users <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> >>> >>>>>>>> Lex, is there anything I can do if you want to look into
> this? I would love to have 1.38 - and hopefully 1.39 - available for CentOS
> 7.
> >>> >>>>>>> You could ask on Centos bugzilla what the problem was.
> >>> >>>>>>>
> >>> >>>>>>> I don't want to sound negative, so lets call it being
> pragmatic ;-P
> >>> >>>>>>>
> >>> >>>>>>> Centos 7 has one year of maintenance updates left, IIUC
> maintenance
> >>> >>>>>>> updates mean security and bugfixes, no new versions, so 1.38
> or 1.39
> >>> >>>>>>> doesn't seem likely to happen.
> >>> >>>>>>>
> >>> >>>>>>> We try to keep Geany git working on Ubuntu LTS (that is what
> Github CI
> >>> >>>>>>> uses) but no guarantees on older things and without any info
> about
> >>> >>>>>>> what failed we can't do much.
> >>> >>>>>>>
> >>> >>>>>>> Cheers
> >>> >>>>>>> Lex
> >>> >>>>>>>
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> >>> >> But does not Red Hat Developer Toolset 10.x support C/C++17? See
> https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_developer_toolset/12/html-single/user_guide/index#sect-GCC-CPP-Compatibility.
> Although I myself have an earlier version of the Developer Toolset
> installed on my own computer, it seems that the latest release, Developer
> Toolset 12 even supports C/C++20?
> >>> > "Red Hat Developer Toolset is a Red Hat offering for developers on
> the
> >>> > Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform." so is it available for Centos 7,
> >>> > and is it supported to build software for the Centos 7 repository?
> >>> >
> >>> > Cheers
> >>> > Lex
> >>> >
> >>> >> If my reading is correct, it would seem the compiler requirement
> can be met?
> >>> Yes, I have been using an earlier version on my CentOS 7 system.
> CentOS and RHEL are ABI compatible. The same repositories are used for
> software to be downloaded.
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