16 Apr
2019
16 Apr
'19
11:59 a.m.
Deltachat-desktop is in the aur since a long time, so shouldn't be a
problem to get it running on arch
(i'm using it myself). It builds from latest master so you always get a
development preview. I guess you
can hack in a specific commit/tag into the PKGBUILD to get a specific
version built.
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/deltachat-desktop-git
~J
On 16.04.19 09:40, Floris Bruynooghe wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> On Mon 15 Apr 2019 at 23:43 +0200, Daniel O. wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I don't understand why flatpak!?
>>
>> This software is awful, it doesn't work or I didn't understand
>> anything! Virtualbox, dosbox, or other interfaces are far ahead.
> While using flatpak does require some initial setup to be done by users,
> it was the platform which gave us the most realistic path to creating
> binary packages which we would have a high confidence of working on many
> linux distributions. We also expect the initial hurdle of flatpak to
> diminish over time.
>
> If you have issues with getting flatpak setup qit would be great if you
> could work with the flatpak project to work out issues and improve
> flatpak usage for others. If the problem you're experiencing is with
> the Delta Chat flatpak build itself it would be great if you could work
> with us to fix the issues.
>
> Lastly, there are various people working on more native support for some
> Linux distributions. But this is not a trivial amount of work and there
> are many distributions, so this largely depends on people volunteering
> to support the distribution they care about.
>
>> I'm happy to use archlinux, somebody put in on aur, it means no flatpak!
> If you would like to work on making Delta Chat directly available on
> AUR, that would be great. The deltchat-core dependency is already on
> AUR if I'm not mistaken.
>
>
> Kind Regards,
> Floris
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