Re: Fedora development of Snap packages

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On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 14:14:29 -0300
"Gerald B. Cox" <gbcox@xxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 12:18 PM, Jiri Eischmann
> <eischmann@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> >
> > KDE has been interested in Flatpak for over a year. They even have a
> > KDE runtime and a couple of KDE apps packaged:
> > https://community.kde.org/Flatpak  
> 
> 
> That's a good thing...but I noticed that the page you directed me to
> above was just created a few weeks ago, May 30th, 2016.  My point was
> while people may well be working on it, most people don't know
> anything about it

It used to be called xdg-app, so the flatpak name is pretty new. 

> - whereas snappy has been getting alot of press.  Granted, it
> formally was Ubuntu specific - but say what you want about Ubuntu,
> they do a great job on marketing their brand.  Flatpak may well be
> superior and "better positioned" - however, unless people start
> discussing it and marketing it - that won't make a difference and
> we'll have a situation where the vast majority of applications are
> packaged for snappy and not Flatpak.  Is that a bad thing?  I don't
> know - but it is usually the way things end up.  Just an observation.

Well, we are discussing it now. ;) 

kevin

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