LyX in the Snap Store

[Igor Ljubuncic]

Hey Pavel,

No problem! I understand.

Perhaps we can pick this conversation sometime in the future, if and when
you have more bandwidth.

(BTW, for the toolchain and security updates, you wouldn't really need that
- for instance, if you specify imagemagick as a runtime dep, and you bundle
it inside the snap, imagemagick comes from the relevant base-aligned Ubuntu
archive, so when the archive gets updated, that gets updated too - you just
need to rebuild the snap).

Anyway, thank you for your time, and may LyX remain around for many more
years (it's one of my must-have programs on any system).

Regards,
Igor

On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 1:26 PM Pavel Sanda <sanda at lyx.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 12:05:15PM +0000, Igor Ljubuncic wrote:
> > What I was thinking is a joint effort. If you do want to maintain snaps
> > long-term (emphasis on if), then you would need to understand and master
> > the process, which is why it is handy for you to get familiar with the
> > tooling.
>
> Unfortunately I do not have time for mastering snap tooling in any
> foreseeable
> future, I am sorry.
>
> > The big advantage in terms of maintenance is that you then do not need to
> > rebuild and recompile everything for every distro.
>
> We do not really maintain LyX in linux distros, it's mostly their effort...
>
> I consider snap to be nice thing to have more from archeology perspective,
> when you need to run decade old code, but for the current codebase the
> current situation of distros managing LyX on their own is better for us.
>
> It would be quite burdersome to track all various CVEs for imagemagick or
> ghostscript and continuously provide security updates for the whole
> toolchain... We are too interdependent on the environment that unless
> someone
> like you volunteers to take this burden on his shoulders it seems the
> needed
> manpower is beyond what we have at our disposal...
>
> Pavel
>
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