Flatpak support

[bertob]

For easier contributions and so you can later submit to Flathub it'd be cool if there was a flatpak manifest.

[anuejn]

we probably also want to release audapolis to flathub then

[rugk]

I agreee it would be nice if you could publish this as a flatpak on flathub e.g.

As Flatpaks are a new software distribution mechanism for Linux distros, can thus installed on any distro and are easy to update.

Here is how to get started. Just to give somw more links for reference.

[pajowu]

At the moment, this is on the lower end of our priority list, as we already have packages for most popular distributions. However, feel free to implement it and submit a PR. Should we need to register for a flathub account or similar, just ping us and tell us if/what credentials are needed for the PR

[rugk]

Well… remember that it also spreads the word and makes an easy installation possible. IMHO, you could have saved the work with package-specific packages if you have a flatpak, given that's installable on any Linuy distro. (Also modern ones like Fedora Silverblue, which discourage "traditional" packages.) It does not hurt to have these, of course. Anyway, that's not the topic here, so…

I have no experience for building that thing unfortunately though, and I guess it can be quite complex given it is an electron app, AFAIK. However, just to leave that here again: I correct my initial link and here is e.g. how VSCodium builds it's stuff, so maybe one can get an idea from that.

[sudwhiwdh]

@pajowu @anuejn Can you currently imagine working on a Flatpak Support? Or are there people in the wider GitHub developer community who could imagine contributing with a pull request?