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  • Static_Rocket@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlFlatpack, appimage, snaps..
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    11 months ago

    This may be a little bias but this is my understanding:

    Flatpaks were the solution for reducing the duplication in Appimages and providing an automated way to do security updates. Flatpak got a chance to learn from Snap.

    Snaps are basically a proprietary approach to creating and distributing Appimages that were created prior to the current Appimage tooling. They got to learn from the first generation of Appimages and decided to deviate from them early on.

    Appimages were a stupid simple approach to a complex issue. Initial tooling was rough though and a lot of people, while they liked the idea, hated the requirements. Basically setting up an Ubuntu 18.04 environment for packaging was the only way to guarantee a truly portable image.

    It left room for improvement and so decisions were made to try and fill that room. They were never bad, and devs weren’t really trying to do anything other than simplify the creation and distribution of existing Appimage functionality.

    I still think flatpaks are the closest to the ideal solution but again, I’m biased.







  • Matter makes sense on paper but it’s not really doing anything more than a standardized interface for MQTT traffic could do and damn Google has a way of fucking up simple stuff. Take a look at their repo for matter. Monolith of submodules and a goofy recursive project structure that requires multiple python virtual environments and external tools to build – to the point where they have another repo just to distribute binaries of the build tools last known to work.

    It’s completely unnecessary and impossible to integrate cleanly into any existing system.