Find a workaround for INDI and Ekos support (was: Keeping KStars available as Beta on Flathub)

[travier]

Hi everyone,

From previous discussions (https://github.com/flathub/flathub/pull/641#issuecomment-424974801, https://github.com/flathub/flathub/pull/1831#issuecomment-694385320), @knro had mentioned that he would prefer not to have KStars available on Flathub if some features where missing.

The situation has not really changed on the blocking issue but we now have KStars available on Flathub.

This is thus a place to discuss how we want to move forward. I think having KStars available even if some features are missing is valuable for users and would help promote it.

But I also understand the support concerns raised by @knro. Thus we can also decide to keep it as Beta only which would still keep it available for (more advanced) users while making it clear that not all features may work as expected.

We should also probably add a README to this repo with the details about which features might be unavailable.

Thanks,

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Historical discussions:

• https://github.com/flathub/flathub/pull/641
• https://github.com/flathub/flathub/pull/1831
• https://github.com/flathub/flathub/pull/2874

[Pointedstick]

Sorry everyone, I was not aware of those prior discussions when I submitted KStars here.

However I am a KStars user who doesn't do any astrophotography or device control using the app, and the rest of the it is quite useful to me even without the blocking issue of being able to upload firmware to devices from the Flatpak version. Hopefully we can find a middle ground of some sort, or even find a way to actually fix that issue.

[Justinzobel]

This is now in stable.

[Justinzobel]

Sorry, misread. Still needs to stay open for a workaround for firmware updates to astrology devices.