Release a flatpak version

[marcosps]

Flatpak is a great way to distribute a game in Linux nowadays. Flathub é being used even from the app stores in different Linux distributions. Having the game distributed to flatpak would be easier for some Linux users to play the game :)

[abitrolly]

Have you found any way to Flatpak Godot games?

[marcosps]

I didn't check, sorry :)

[blinry]

Cool suggestion, thanks! This is probably not a priority for us right now, but we'd welcome anyone to look into making a Flatpak version (or packages in other Linux package managers, for that matter)! Ideally, it would integrate into the GitHub CI (see .github/workflows/build.yml) and the packages to the releases.

[freundTech]

I looked into this and made some progress.

I managed to get it to run within flatpak with the .pck from itch.io. I still haven't managed to compile the .pck insside flatpak yet (it looks like no-one has managed that yet... All the godot programs on flatpak use pre-built .pck s)

I opened PR #171, which adds flathub metadata to this repository. Flathub allows hosting the metadata directly with flathub, but prefers it to be hosted upstream, so it's more likely to be kept up-to-date.

If I don't manage to build the .pck within flatpak I would still need a permanent download link for the pre-built .pck (for example github releases). Itch.io sadly doesn't provide permalinks, but only generated short-lived download links on the fly.

[MoralCode]

I managed to get it to run within flatpak with the .pck from itch.io.

Do you have a link to your build scripts?

I opened PR #171, which adds flathub metadata to this repository. Flathub allows hosting the metadata directly with flathub, but prefers it to be hosted upstream, so it's more likely to be kept up-to-date.

I get the vibe that this repo doesnt have a lot of maintainer attention on it anymore, so putting the metadata in the flatpak repo may give it better chances of being maintained in the short term at least