Re: [Qtractor-devel] Qtractor appimage packaged

[Ralf M. <ral...@al...>]

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



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