The goal is to automate the manual labor of updating the Emulators today and using the flathub beta channels functionality to publish daily automatic builds with Emulator updates.
Then the users that want it can easily subscribe to the beta channel.
Differences from cooker
Cooker has new features while Nightly only update the emulators.
So Nightly is current stable but with daily updated emulators.
This allows us to allow the community to test new emulator functions and let us now if a certain nightly build of for example yuzu is causing issues.
For nightly this whole thing is automatic
While for cooker main we can use this emulator automatic update when we publish new cooker-main builds to see if there is any conflicts with the new features.
Stable : Is stable
Nightly: Daily emulator updates and things could break on the stable branch
RetroDECK: Nightly (The Midnight Channel)
Is a new version type of RetroDECK
The goal is to automate the manual labor of updating the Emulators today and using the flathub beta channels functionality to publish daily automatic builds with Emulator updates.
Then the users that want it can easily subscribe to the beta channel.
Differences from cooker
Cooker has new features while Nightly only update the emulators. So Nightly is current stable but with daily updated emulators.
This allows us to allow the community to test new emulator functions and let us now if a certain nightly build of for example yuzu is causing issues.
For nightly this whole thing is automatic
While for cooker main we can use this emulator automatic update when we publish new cooker-main builds to see if there is any conflicts with the new features.