Interesting! Looking forward to checking it out. On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 8:47 PM, Thomas Kluyver <tak...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I spent a while today playing with Flatpak, a new system for packaging > sandboxed applications on Linux. The result is an example that can build > and install Pygame's Aliens example game: > > https://github.com/takluyver/pygame-flatpak-test > > If you're running Fedora 24+, Ubuntu 16.10 (might need a PPA?) Debian > testing/unstable or Arch, you can install Flatpak and try it out. > > This is quite rough at the moment, but I think it has good potential for > distributing games to Linux users in the future. It looks like [1] Flatpak > is on its way to becoming the default cross-distro app distribution > mechanism for desktop Linux. > > The big improvement I'd like to make is building a dedicated Flatpak > 'runtime' for pygame, including a newer version of Python - the base > runtime I'm using at present has Python 3.4. > > Thanks, > Thomas > > [1] https://kamikazow.wordpress.com/2017/02/09/adoption-of- > flatpak-vs-snap/ >
