Apple moving to the new chip may break the executable but not the
package manager. Those two things are not related.
So your proposing not including any updates to Xephem for OSX?
On 3/24/21 3:57 PM, Sarty, Gordon
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Mac OSX already has a (nice) .dmg for XEphem, but it will
likely be broken when tried with the new chip. (I have abandoned
mac for this and other reasons.)
I'm on ubuntu which has snap and apt installed literally out of
the factory (a Dell). I'd have to install flatpac to use it.
Somehow. (i.e. yet another step to get XEphem installed)
Windows is now supposed to have some kind of nested linux, so a
linux solution should work there.
On 2021-03-24 1:11 p.m., Gilbert
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Why do you want to limit it to Linux platforms?
What about Unix platforms like Mac OSX.
I have it installed Fedora and OSX 10.14.
... and forgive me for saying this Windows.
On 3/24/21 2:55 PM, georg180662
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Hi all,
Appimage, Snap and Flatpak are 3 different concepts with
the same goal: to pack a complete application with all
dependencies in one package and make it executable on a
variety of platforms independent of the distribution.
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Each has advantages and disadvantages - that's why
there are three...
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The goal is what we all want for XEphem. The "winning"
format will be the one, that someone can implement first
for XEphem.
Compared to appimage, snap and flatpak are the more
modern formats. I would prefer them.
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Good comparison of the 3 formats:
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In sum, I think flatpak is best for xephen. (this is my
personal opinion)
But I would be excited about any format that someone
provides!
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