[L2Ork-dev] Purr-Data fixes to the build instructions for Linux Ubuntu 18.04

[Jonathan Wilkes]

When I last looked, appimage had the best set of features for our userbase. You
can just download it, and click it to run. IIRC you can even embed a dialog to
ask the user if they want to "install" it, meaning creating the
desktop icon/mapping
junk so users can click Pd files and open them.

Unfortunately it had the worst developer UX. You basically have to
standardize on
the oldest distro you want to support, then test on pretty much every
other distro
to make sure the deps you're shipping will work there.

-Jonathan

On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 6:53 AM Albert Graef <aggraef at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 3:21 AM Jonathan Wilkes <jon.w.wilkes at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Albert-- are any of docker and flatpak/appimage/snap/etc. usable enough
>> to just have one standard build environment (w/docker?) and one
>> distribution channel for all the Linuxes (flatpak/appimage/whatever?)
>
>
> I've thought about this myself, but I don't really have any first-hand experience with any of these (apart from dabbling a bit with snaps on Arch). However, snaps and flatpaks get mentioned quite a bit in Linux podcasts lately. There's quite a bit of stuff available already in these formats, and people use them to install quite complicated applications such as video editors, and that seems to work fine these days. So I'd say that they should probably work reasonably well for purr-data as well, at least on recent Linux systems. But someone with good working knowledge of any of these systems will just have to do the work and give it a try.
>
> Albert
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