No, the Geany project provides pre-built binaries only for Windows and macos, and relies on distributors on Linux and BSDs, or on users to build it for themselves (it's actually not very hard).
--- If you want details on and reasoning look up the issue numbers, but basically the reason is that Windows and macos don't have a habit of packaging free software themselves, so it's "more important" to do it for those, as well as we have people volunteering for doing those. For native Linux and BSDs distros, they usually provide build, yet as you mention sometimes a bit outdated -- but that's the case for everything they ship basically, but for rolling releases. Additionally, providing *good* support for every distro requires non-trivial work, and each distributor is usually better suited for the fine tuning the build. Again, see the discussions above why it's not entirely a "set it up and forget it" process. Admittedly, an additional reason why we don't feel we ought to build it is we expect a good part of our userbase to be able to built it themselves if they feel like it -- but we might be biased as we're used to build software ourselves, whereas we potentially have a larger and larger userbase that more often use widely different setup processes like pip/node/whatever. --- We could potentially revisit some of this if we see enough enthusiasm **and testers** for it. I am not familiar with building Flatpaks, but I'm getting less biased against them -- I still prefer distribution packages (and especially for software that will anyway require a *lot* of privileges to be remotely usable anyway) but I am probably getting more used to the fact it's part of the ecosystem. But all this requires an automated way of releasing those, people willing to maintain them, and a working integration with plugins. Again, I'm not familiar with building Flaptaks to know much about the details and challenges. If you're interested in discussing this further, it's probably better to open an issue or PR on the matter. -- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/geany/geany/discussions/4464#discussioncomment-15047847 You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Message ID: <geany/geany/repo-discussions/4464/comments/[email protected]>
