Re: [Qtractor-devel] Qtractor appimage packaged
An Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer
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From: Ralf M. <ral...@al...> - 2017-06-21 05:40:11
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Hi, for testing purpose I took the snappy route to provide QjackCtl. The container approach makes it impossible to seriously build snaps with dependencies to jack, let alone that if it should work, then it anyway would only work for Ubuntu, since I'm not aware of any other distro supporting it, for example take a look at the Arch Linux issue [1]. You might find Ubuntu web sites that imply that a consortium of distros, among them Arch Linux, does support snaps, but this is misleading. Arch users and developers discussed it and we agree that non of those mechanisms will become official supported by Arch Linux. Actually the dependency chain of Qtractor is that straightforward that you quasi could build it for each distro without issues. However, even if you want to link each app against it's own dependency chain, then simply build it by not linking against shared libs and provide a tarball to install everything to /opt. Again, it's much unlikely that different distros that consider to migrate from classic packages, to such a container thingy, ever will use the same approach, so you anyway need to build something new for each distro. Btw. learning how to build Debian/Ubuntu DEB packages is much easier to do, than learning how to build snaps, let alone that quasi nothing is easier than writing a PKGBUILD for Arch Linux. For Linux audio it's a step in the wrong direction. Perhaps it's a good idea for Linux phones. Regards, Ralf [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/snapcraft/2017-January/002219.html -- Vote for apulse! echo $(w3m https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/apulse |grep 'Votes: ') Votes: 70 Updated: Wed Jun 21 07:07:22 CEST 2017 |