On Tue, 2017-06-27 at 10:23 +0100, Tom Hughes wrote: > On 27/06/17 10:11, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > > On Tuesday, 27 June 2017 at 06:40, Truong Anh Tuan wrote: > > > I have just got updates from upstream developers. A new version > > > of pencil has been released [1]. I uses Electron, instead of > > > XULrunner. > > > > > > I am planning to update the package to keep pencil on the next > > > Fedora releases. However, as I have checked on the wiki, Electron > > > package [2] has not been officially put into Fedora repo. > > > What should I do now? Any suggestions? > > > > You can ask Brenton to submit the electron package for review and > > maintain it in Fedora or you can do it yourself. > > I'm guessing you haven't seen the dependency tree for electron if > you think it's that easy ;-) > > To be honest I'm struggling to even make sense of what exactly > constitutes "electron" as such because the npm module of that name > appears to basically be an installer for a prebuilt node and chrome! > > I believe that behind that there are then a zillion other electron-* > npm modules no doubt each with their own crazy dependency hell.
And it is likely each app will require different versions of all those modules, those versions being incompatible with each others. At that point, bundling with something like Flatpak becomes more interesting than packaging all those separately. -- Mathieu _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
