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KJ7LNW / xnec2c

Xnec2c is a high-performance multi-threaded electromagnetic simulation package to model antenna near- and far-field radiation patterns for Linux and UNIX operating systems.

https://www.xnec2c.org/

GNU General Public License v3.0

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Flatpak build #29

Closed AsciiWolf closed 7 months ago

AsciiWolf commented 1 year ago

I have made a Flatpak build of Xnec2c that I am going to publish on Flathub. Feel free to let me know whether you are interested in co-maintaining the Flathub Flatpak and having push access to its Git repository. :-)

KJ7LNW commented 1 year ago

That is great, thank you for publishing!

Questions:

Is this something where the flathub XML file could be maintained in xnec2c's git tree, or are they necessarily separate repositories? (for example, we already have a xnec2c.spec file for building RPMs).
How does auto-update work? If we publish a new version of xnec2c on the releases index, will flathub magically pick it up?

AsciiWolf commented 1 year ago

Hi Eric,

Thanks for the quick reply!

ad 1. It is possible for third-parties to have their own infrastructure, however it is not a common thing and I am not sure how hard it would be to set it up. You can try asking here. ad 2. Well, either the Flatpak maintainer can update the Flatpak by manually editing its (yaml) manifest file or there is something called x-data-checker bot that basically sends a new Pull Request to the Flathub app repository with updated version number, sha256 checksum, AppStream metadata version and other things when it detects a new upstream release. However, it requires specific metadata in the application Flatpak manifest file and I did not add these metadata yet. I will do it later. :-)

KJ7LNW commented 1 year ago

That sounds great. Let me know when you have the metadata plugged in and I'll take a look

AsciiWolf commented 1 year ago

I will let you know. :-) If you want, let us also know here whether you are interested in having push rights to the Xnec2c Flatpak Git repository (once it is created) so you can merge the Pull Requests and do other changes to the Flatpak.

KJ7LNW commented 1 year ago

Ok. I commented on the thread for push rights. Thanks!

KJ7LNW commented 1 year ago

@AsciiWolf, I think this issue is ready to close, but please re-open if I missed something.

Thanks!

-Eric

KJ7LNW commented 7 months ago

@AsciiWolf, we just released v4.4.13. Is there anything that needs to be done to update flathub?

AsciiWolf commented 7 months ago

@KJ7LNW I will take a look tomorrow. Thanks for letting me know!

AsciiWolf commented 7 months ago

No need to reopen this ticket. xnec2c has been on Flathub for a while now and I have created a separate ticket for the update.

KJ7LNW commented 7 months ago

got it