Publish in Elementary OS's AppCenter?

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Simple animated GIF screen recorder with an easy to use interface

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Publish in Elementary OS's AppCenter? #144

Open peteruithoven opened 7 years ago

peteruithoven commented 7 years ago

ElementaryOS just released a new AppCenter with pay what you want functionality. Seeing this app is very easy to use, uses Vala and GTK+ it seems like a great match.

More info: https://developer.elementary.io/ https://github.com/elementary/houston/wiki/Before-You-Publish

phw commented 7 years ago

Thanks for the suggestion, I will consider this.

phw commented 7 years ago

I would like to support this, but https://github.com/elementary/houston/issues/436 currently blocks this, as I don't intent to change the app name (which is already in use) nor implement any crazy workaround.

One option might be to fork my own project just for publishing to Elementary, but I don't really want to maintain that.

phw commented 7 years ago

Just for the record there are two blockers currently:

The crazy requirements for the app name
The insistence of Elementary to include Debian control files directly in the repository (which is problematic, since Debian discourages this and it will make Debian packaging harder, and also the files would be Elementary specific and are not necessarily reusable by Debian or Ubuntu)

I really consider forking the project into a separate repository for this, but I need some automatic way to keep it updated without too much trouble. Not high priority at the moment.

peteruithoven commented 7 years ago

@phw I've been a bit bold and opened a issue on the second blocker you mentioned, there has been a respond there that might be of interest to you. https://github.com/elementary/houston/issues/544#issuecomment-331938507

phw commented 7 years ago

Thanks for this. I had once asked about it in their chat, but having an issue is better.

I really like the general way they handle builds for their store, but the two issues I have blocking me really go against established best practices. It's ok if you build something explicitly for Elementary, but adopting an existing, published app gets harder.

Still want to set this up even with the blockers present, but don't know when I will find the time.