Re: (Maybe slightly OT) Flatpak

[email protected] (Johan Vromans) Wed, 13 May 2026 10:11:24 +0200
Newsgroups perl.perl5.porters
Organization Squirrel Consultancy
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 13 May 2026 03:05:00 -0400, Dan wrote:

> ... but in my
> experience flatpak is used most often for graphical applications though I
> don't think that's required. It doesn't necessarily make sense for a
> pure-perl Perl application since that's just a set of perl
> scripts/modules, but I could see it being useful for XS perl modules and
> applications that use them. Basically any case where you might use an
> rpm/deb but want to make something installable to any distribution.

In my particular case I have a graphical application that uses perl and
wxWidgets (wxPerl).

But I can also imagine that a package is appropriate (and handy) for perl
server type apps, e.g. Dancer based.