Which versions to provide for Linux/UNIX distributions?

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Which versions to provide for Linux/UNIX distributions? #118

Open strogonoff opened 3 years ago

strogonoff commented 3 years ago

We have the following options that should work:

AppImage, snap, debian package (deb), rpm, freebsd, pacman, p5p, apk.

Need to pick the minimum possible set that will satisfy our audience, in near term as few as possible (let’s say up to two)
@ronaldtse when someone asked for a Linux version, did they specify a Linux distribution?

ronaldtse commented 3 years ago

This task actually came form a request from @brandonnodnarb : What Linux distro do you use?

strogonoff commented 3 years ago

We are going with Snaps as number one option (seems more or less accepted in Ubuntu), but I have a suspicion that it won’t satisfy everyone. In case it doesn’t, we could add an alternative—not sure what it should be…

brandonnodnarb commented 3 years ago

@ronaldtse @strogonoff I use Debian. However, I now have a Windoze 10 VM I can use. :)

ronaldtse commented 3 years ago

@brandonnodnarb I believe Snap packages also work on Debian? If you don't mind please give it a try... Windows will work but not sure if you want to give up that flexibility 😅

(love your palindromic name BTW 😉 )

brandonnodnarb commented 3 years ago

Snap has it's own issues. I'll just use the VM. All good.