From: "Joonas Sarajärvi" <muep@iki.fi>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Any interest in making Emacs available on Flathub?
Date: Sun, 20 May 2018 10:26:04 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <34fe58b9-4ee6-1620-77d1-7809355e9cc3@iki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <adc131a9-e685-02b5-e45f-b3e1ecce154e@iki.fi>
Hi,
Just to let you know, a pre-built copy of GNU Emacs is now available
from the Flathub service [1]. Instructions for making use of this
mechanism of distribution are available on that site.
The binaries and their corresponding source code are provided by the
Flathub organization, based on the git repository at [2]. This git
repository is currently maintained by me and Zach Oglesby. I think we
are well resourced to keep Flathub offering a copy of Emacs that is up
to date and works well, but it would still be great to have someone with
a longer track record in Emacs development as collaborator.
When this distribution format was discussed earlier, the main concern
seemed to be about making Emacs accidentally depend on proprietary
software so I'll quickly address this.
Flatpak packaging tools are free software under LGPL-2.1 and available
from package repositories of many popular GNU/Linux distributions
Emacs flatpak requires the org.freedesktop.Sdk runtime which is
basically a GNU system compiled for Linux kernel, consisting of popular
libraries like glibc, gtk+ and tools like the GNU compiler collection.
The runtime includes a large set of software under various free software
licenses. It is not yet well documented but based on discussion with its
maintainers, no proprietary software is intentionally included in it.
Please let us know if there are problems
- Joonas
[1] https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.gnu.emacs
[2] https://github.com/flathub/org.gnu.emacs
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-20 7:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-18 17:55 Any interest in making Emacs available on Flathub? Joonas Sarajärvi
2018-04-18 19:31 ` Paul Eggert
2018-04-19 5:53 ` Joonas Sarajärvi
2018-04-19 22:42 ` Paul Eggert
2018-04-19 6:10 ` Richard Stallman
2018-04-19 7:06 ` Joonas Sarajärvi
2018-04-20 3:53 ` Richard Stallman
2018-04-20 18:39 ` Joonas Sarajärvi
2018-05-20 7:26 ` Joonas Sarajärvi [this message]
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