Subsurface as a Snap?

Miika Turkia miika.turkia at gmail.com
Thu Dec 28 20:50:02 PST 2017


On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 5:15 PM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:

>
> I could be wrong (that's one of my defining strength - I am wrong a lot).
> But here's my analysis:
>
> About 2/3 of our users are supported with one single binary, the Windows
> installer.
> Another 20% of our users are supported by one single binary, the Mac DMG
> (we had times had a second DMG for older versions, but given that they
> tended to get < 100 users, I have not spend much effort on them).
> The remaining roughly 15% of our users today require us to build about 30
> different binary packages which take up a significant amount of my time
> whenever we introduce a new dependency, need a feature from a newer version
> of a library, or some other way break things. At this point I have managed
> to bring down the number of build configuration systems to 3 to create the
> vast majority of those binary packages: the Ubuntu/Launchpad system, the
> openSUSE/Fedora/OBS system, plus AppImage. Additionally, community members
> are maintaining always current and very solid binary packages for Arch and
> Gentoo (I believe). Considering this maybe you can understand my reluctance
> better.
>

Here is a quick run-down from Launchpad for the latest release.

    4.7.5-1~zesty (56) - 17.04
        zesty (56)
            amd64 (53)
            i386 (3)
    4.7.5-1~xenial (505) - 16.04 LTS
        xenial (505)
            amd64 (472)
            i386 (33)
    4.7.5-1~artful (123) - 17.10
        artful (123)
            amd64 (120)
            i386 (3)

BTW Out of curiosity, how many users you think we have in total?

miika
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