Re: Missing application resources when run in one Linux distro but not another

Maurizio Berti <[email protected]> Sun, 22 Mar 2020 19:17:54 +0100
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Il giorno dom 22 mar 2020 alle ore 18:13 Damon Lynch <[email protected]>
ha scritto:

> I have to say packaging up applications for distribution is far from
> easy. In fact I'd say it's one of the most difficult aspects of
> developing and certainly maintaining a project, if not the most
> difficult. Dealing with the intricacies of setuptools / distutils,
> pip, package metadata, free desktop specs, and distro package
> databases -- there is an awful lot to learn, and so much that can go
> wrong.
>

I completely agree on this point.
I've been writing and maintaining a synth editor program in the last 4
years, and despite I use Linux and develop it there, I gave up on creating
a packaging for it (mostly because 99% of users are on MacOS and Windows),
so I decided to keep the project structure in a way that it can be run
directly from the a repository clone.
Luckily, Qt allows us to keep a decent level of consistence between all
platforms and I don't need nor want platform specific features. But, yeah,
Linux packaging is often a mess.

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cuore. - "Sostiene Pereira", Antonio Tabucchi
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