Re: [Help-smalltalk] Flatpak Package

2018-04-14 Thread bill-auger
just to be clear that i am not trying to discourage your efforts - you saw a problem and you solved it; not only for yourself but in a way that could benefit others also - that is a very good thing - quite awesome in fact - i only meant to point out that flatpacks are not the ideal solutions to suc

Re: [Help-smalltalk] Flatpak Package

2018-04-14 Thread bill-auger
Çağatay - you replied only to me instead of "reply all" to the list - i will address your concern; but i do think this is important enough to be on the public list; so there is no confusion about the justification for avoiding flatpack, appimage, docker or any analogous self-contained blobs - the s

Re: [Help-smalltalk] Flatpak Package

2018-04-14 Thread bill-auger
on the face of it, this interest in packaging GNU software could be seen as encouraging; but that i dont understand the motivation for doing this - if you do not use smalltalk yourself, and you dont know anyone who does, and the GNU smalltalk maintainers have not asked for this do you just go abou

[Help-smalltalk] Flatpak Package

2018-04-14 Thread Çağatay Yiğit Şahin
Hello, I created a Flatpak package for GNU Smalltalk. I could not test it much (since I don't really know Smalltalk) but it can print "Hello World" and create a GTK+ window with a button. If you are interested, you can check it at https://gitlab.com/cagatay-y/org.gnu.Small