Re: [Frescobaldi] ANN: Frescobaldi 3.3.0

[Andrew Bernard]

So now we know your plans. Thanks!

Andrew


On 10/04/2023 2:15 pm, Jean Abou Samra wrote:
> > Le 10 avr. 2023 à 02:04, Andrew Bernard <andrew.bernard@mailbox.org> a écrit :
> > I imagine over time Wilbert and the Frescobaldi developers will release 
> > exclusively with flatpak. Although I don't know their plans, that may well 
> > happen, making it harder to do a manually crafted install.
>
> I don’t see why we would do that. The .tar.gz is a Python sdist (source 
> distribution), i.e., almost the same as tarring the source code, just with some 
> metadata added. In my view, the source code is part of the normal release 
> artifacts for any software, and an sdist is very simple to generate. Plus, you 
> will of course always be able to check out the Git repository.