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Is this the sort of thing that Flatpak would be useful for? Or are there sandbox-related complications when using it to package a compiler?
by jamesgeck0 7mo ago
Is this the sort of thing that Flatpak would be useful for? Or are there sandbox-related complications when using it to package a compiler?
- queenkjuul 7mo agoNot an expert but i don't see a problem. I use Snap-packaged compilers on Ubuntu all day, and have used Flatpak'd IDEs
- okanat 7mo agoFlatpak is basically running an isolated separate distro. A software inside a Flatpak has to communicate with the outside world to do anything useful which is yet another API surface that needs to be maintained and it will be dropped just like gtk2 when people just don't want to maintain it. I think the way the Linux ecosystem works is fundamentally against maintaining old binaries unless they are a text-only program.