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Re: [pygame] Playing with Flatpak packaging



What does it have over Docker?

On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 12:59 PM, René Dudfield <renesd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Interesting! Looking forward to checking it out.

On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 8:47 PM, Thomas Kluyver <takowl@xxxxxxxxx> 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




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