[crossfire] flatpak

[Jussi Eloranta]

Hi Rick and Nicolas,

Thanks for your feedback. And yes, I understand Nicolas' concern of 
maintaining this. I am not sure what is the best way to integrate this 
into your code base (& automate). First, I see that you are using 
sourceforge and flathub uses github for application submission. So, 
making things automatic would require pushing things to two different 
places. But perhaps the releases do not take place that often and this 
can be done somewhat manually? But I will try to see how others are 
doing this.

But since at least the idea was not shot down immediately, I will start 
looking more into this :-) For example, shattered pixel dungeon (single 
player rogue-like RPG) has the flatpak files here:

https://github.com/flathub/com.shatteredpixel.shatteredpixeldungeon

In addition to flatpak related files, one also needs to include two 
other files for flathub (desktop file and general application 
description file in xml format). Examples of both of these are above. 
The flatpak builder file in this case is in json format (rather than yml).

Flathub takes the application entries from github (like the above 
example). Here is the full documentation for the submission process:

https://github.com/flathub/flathub/wiki/App-Submission

Application updates go via that route as well (as far as I understand). 
Anyway, just wanted to let you know what the big picture is. I will try 
to come up with the required files. By the way, are the clients 
(actually just the java client) also under GPL2 copyright (like the 
server)?

Finally - and unfortunately - flathub no longer supports gtk2, so all 
this would be for the java client only. Personally I like the gtk2 
client more but this is probably only because I have used it for many 
years...

Best wishes,

Jussi Eloranta

ps. Forgot... com.real-time.crossfire does not work for the name because 
of the dash. Right now I have com.real_time.crossfire but, of course, 
that would not resolve to anything using DNS. So, any suggestions?