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itkach / aard2-android

Aard2 for Android, a simple dictionary app
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Not available on F-Droid #66

Closed maxim-pandra closed 7 years ago

maxim-pandra commented 7 years ago

Hey, I didn't manage to find your dictionary on the F-Droid project. There is the old version of aard only.

Is the new version not free or not opensource somehow?

itkach commented 7 years ago

It is free and open source. F-Droid, however, requires a clean build from the source and nobody did that. There was an unfinished attempt to get Aard 2 into F-Droid, see https://github.com/itkach/slobber/issues/1. I can assist those who want to get this done, but I am not interested in becoming maintainer of F-Droid package myself.

UnderSampled commented 7 years ago

I was the one trying to get it ready for Fdroid. The problem was a binary package (fdroid doesn't accept binary blobs of any sort) in the slobber library. The binary is actuall y a reproducible l, patched version of an open source library, so I thought to simply recompile it on the fly for fdroid. Unfortunately, that library pulls in a lot of other open source libraries, which I didn't know how to confirm for Fdroid's system (they have a list approved repositories, but I guess that one wasn't part of one of those). I can try to find my old fdroid script if you want to take it up again (and if I still have it. It may be simple if you talk with fdroid's devs about how to deal with that other repository.

itkach commented 7 years ago

Unfortunately, that library pulls in a lot of other open source libraries

@UnderSampled I'm not sure why do you say that. simpleframework, if that's what we are talking about, doesn't have any external runtime dependencies except junit for tests, as far as I know.

itkach commented 7 years ago

@doronbehar Just to clarify, since people keep asking... I have nothing against F-droid and if someone is willing to put it there - great. It's just not something that I can or want to take on.

ildar commented 7 years ago

Right, the prooflink: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/issues/863#note_40132915

dimqua commented 5 years ago

The app has been added to F-Droid recently.