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Publish to flathub support #7154

Open soredake opened 1 year ago

soredake commented 1 year ago

It would be nice if there is support for publishing electron apps to flathub.

Related: https://discourse.flathub.org/t/seeking-contractors-for-work-on-flathub-project/1889 https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/issues/512 https://twitter.com/ramcq/status/1462837235166990341 https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/blob/master/docs/configuration/flatpak.md

mmaietta commented 1 year ago

I have no plans in particular for adding Flathub support.

But I'd be happy to guide you in how to create a Publisher/Provider for Flathub, you'd need to tackle the API portion and integration testing. I built the integrations with Keygen and Bitbucket that you can use for reference/examples

github-actions[bot] commented 1 year ago

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soredake commented 1 year ago

Not stale.

mmaietta commented 11 months ago

I'd be happy to guide you in how to create a Publisher/Provider for Flathub, you'd need to tackle the API portion and integration testing.

Closing as Not Planned. Feel free to begin working on a publisher for it and I'll reopen

Nantris commented 11 months ago

I'd love to see support for this. Might it be better to re-open with a "Help Wanted" tag instead?

mmaietta commented 11 months ago

Seems reasonable @Slapbox 🙂

Wanna build it? 😉

Nantris commented 11 months ago

I want to build too many things for my own good. 😅

I'll have to pass for now but happy to help if someone takes the lead on this in the future.

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Nantris commented 6 months ago

Bump.

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soredake commented 4 months ago

Not stale.

mmaietta commented 4 months ago

Happy to explore this option now, but fairly low priority comparative to some other issues I'm looking into. It seems a test project needs to be added to the registry via Github PR https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-authors/submission/#how-to-submit-an-app. Not sure if they'll accept a test app though.

Would this also be including an electron-builder auto-updater ("Provider") functionality?

Nantris commented 4 months ago

My (rather naive) understanding is that Flatpaks have their own update system so I don't think the auto-updater would need to be active for Flatpak builds.

I came across this forum post about Flathub having a repo for beta builds, and while not quite what would be necessary in this case, it might at least be more acceptable or appropriate: https://discourse.flathub.org/t/how-to-use-flathub-beta/2111

mmaietta commented 4 months ago

Hmmmm, I'll need to look into that. If looking to do a custom publisher on your own (that maybe you could submit as a PR? 😁 ), here's a tutorial on writing your own publisher script https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/issues/8049#issuecomment-1955741412

github-actions[bot] commented 2 months ago

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Nantris commented 2 months ago

Not stale but not under development by anyone currently.

jrivard commented 1 month ago

Definitely needed. An unofficial flatpak for a security focused app seems like a really bad idea.