Would a contribution to the docs about native distribution w kotlinlang #compose-desktop

Would a contribution to the docs about native distribution with flatpak be accepted? To even bother writing it or not 😛 It would allow to support tons of linux distros compared to the limited

.deb

currently allowed by jpackage. Adding a dedicated section for flatpak here: https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-jb/tree/master/tutorials/Native_distributions_and_local_execution

Big Chungus

04/03/2022, 6:38 PM

Doesn't jpackage already support AppImage for general linux distribution?

Abdelilah El Aissaoui

04/03/2022, 7:02 PM

Uses the same name but apparantly it's a different format 😅

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61612710/using-jpackage-to-make-an-appimage

Big Chungus

04/03/2022, 7:05 PM

Blimey! No wonder I couldn't get it to work 😀

Was trying for an entirely different thing!

Abdelilah El Aissaoui

04/03/2022, 7:06 PM

I had the exact same issue 😄 The naming is very confusing

Big Chungus

04/03/2022, 7:06 PM

Yeah, flatpack support for CfD would be awesome. Maybe the plugin could even generate it for us from jpackage app-image output

Similar to how the linked SO suggests to get AppImage

If you could write up some documentation on how to do it manually I could try raising a PR against CfD gradle plugin to automate it.

Abdelilah El Aissaoui

04/03/2022, 7:13 PM

Not sure how easy would be to automate it (since it requires to have flatpak install + the required runtime), or if it even makes sense because you usually want to deploy the JAR with the config flatpak config files, but I'll write an example of how to do it. If it's not accepted for the official docs, I guess I'll write some kind of blog post for ppl interested in the future

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