Flatpak format in the store? [duplicate]
asked 2017-02-16 11:11:02 +0300
I would like to know if jolla has future plans to use the flatpak format in the store, but also keeping the .rpm format for the system
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answered 2017-02-16 11:38:12 +0300
There have been some discussions about adopting it in the future or have someone from the community look into it but i doubt they have the time internally to investigate or test.
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answered 2019-12-28 13:54:39 +0300
Duplicate of https://together.jolla.com/question/136123/flatpak-as-a-app-distribution-format/.
Also there is some community initiative to bring Flatpak to SFOS now: https://together.jolla.com/question/220308/flatpaks-on-sfos/.
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And there seems to be a release now: https://github.com/sailfishos-flatpak
Spark ( 2020-01-10 15:05:53 +0300 )editStats
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Flatpak seems like an ideal candidate for shipping self-contained & sandboxed applications with the Jolla Store - #unlike Snappy it is vendor neutral and already available as a first class citizen for more than one distro (so far at least Fedora and Solus and probably many others).
It also has support for runtimes (imagine "Sailfish OS 2.1 runtime", etc.), which can be shared by applications, thus dramatically reducing flatpak sizes. IIRC Snappy has something similar, which is for some reason not widely used.
MartinK ( 2017-02-16 19:22:52 +0300 )editI think flatpak is being more adopted by the community
https://kamikazow.wordpress.com/2017/02/09/adoption-of-flatpak-vs-snap/
Snap is also very good but I do not trust canonical much
jor1196 ( 2017-02-17 08:18:29 +0300 )edit