[L2Ork-dev] Pd-L2Ork now available on flathub

[Ico Bukvic]

IOhannes is correct. There is one thing that OP might be hinting at,
however, that might be worth considering. The flatpak developers want
projects to be using the latest version of the freedesktop and are strongly
discouraging use of older versions on newly submitted projects. This is why
in the recent release of Pd-L2Ork I was required to use the latest 23.08.
Given that adjusting this in any flatpak manifest requires a simple change
and I have not seen any regressions going from 22.08 to this one, it may
not be a bad idea to encourage all Pd flatpak variants to use the same
version of the flatpak, which in turn will significantly lower a cumulative
hard drive footprint for those who wish to have multiple versions installed
alongside.

Best,

Ico

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On Fri, Nov 3, 2023, 05:02 IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoelnig at iem.at> wrote:

> On 11/2/23 18:07, Linux ROUEN Normandie wrote:
> > Very nice to have Pd-L2Ork in Flatpak, same for Pd and Purr Data.
> > For example all 3 are available in the Software Center of Linux Mint 21
> > (based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS).
> > For the installation, Pd v.0.54-1 needs ~ 2 GB (+ externals), Pd-L2Ork
> > v.20231030 ~ 3.6 GB and Purr Data v.2.19.3 ~ 3.3 GB.
> > If you use only Flatpak applications your HDD or SSD could be full very
> > quickly, especially when using the Raspberry Pi hardware.
>
> are you sure?
>
> if you *only* install e.g. "Pd", you might need 2GB, but the flatpak of
> Pd itself is only 43MB (extracted).
> it does require a runtime environment ("Freedesktop Platform" and
> friends), which *is* quite big in total.
>
> however, in my understanding, the platform can be shared between
> different applications, so once you have installed e.g. Pd, also
> installing Pd-L2ork will only add another 572MB, and also installing
> PurrData will only add another 284MB.
>
>
> (there are different versions of the "Freedesktop Environment", so the
> above is not *always* true; nevertheless there is a lot of data sharing
> between applications)
>
> gmdsar
> IOhannes
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