Subj : Re: Icy Draw 0.4.0
To   : Gamgee
From : Omnibrain
Date : Wed Feb 19 2025 02:22 am

 Ga> As a developer trying to offer a product to "users", perhaps you 
 Ga> *should* try to build it on a clean system, because that's what nearly 
 Ga> all users are.... using.

I don't distribute source code - I distribute executables. Working with source code is not something end users do anymore.
And if it's too complex to install rust then building that stuff is out of discussion anyways.

 Ga> I appreciate that you're developing new/useful software... But as a 
 Ga> developer wanting more people to use the software, isn't it a little 
 Ga> narrow-focused to only worry about whether it works on your build server 
 Ga> (only)?  People can't use/recommend it if they can't run it...

There are not many ppl using linux and even fewer can't install deb files. And y build server is the thing where it needs to build. Providing win/osx is around ~90% of the user base, deb files is ~10% - you're the first having problems with that and responds back that's why I'll look into AppImage at some point. Should cover almost anything. 

To get pipelines packages for every distribution out there is something I
don't want to spend time on - but if someone contributes pipelines for let's say snap, flatpack, AUR, RPM, zypper it's a welcome addition.

Distributing software on linux these days is painful. 
(That's why I said I go to AppImage - never had a problem to run that just chmod+x - click - done).

I don't intend to make it easier to build - it is already. Y software has a bunch of pre requisites if it's not trivial these days.

Build server is always a clean machine - btw. but with all the distributions out there it's impossible for me to tell which libraries are installed on each users system.

I don't really understand the point of the discussion btw.

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