[TriLUG] release format for commercial project

[Stephen Wiley via TriLUG]

I've always preferred AppImage to Flatpak even when I was running Alpine
(I think I typically ran them in a chroot.)

Is there a reason you went with Postgress instead of Sqlite? That's kind
of an intense RDBMS to be embedding.

--Stephen

On Wed, Sep 16, 2026 at 10:42:44PM -0400, Wes Garrison via TriLUG wrote:
> Hey folks,
> 
> We're about ready to release testing versions of our Business Bookkeeping
> product to compete with QuickBooks.
> 
> Currently I'm building a .deb, .rpm, and .pacman. (x64/amd64 only, no arm64
> yet for win or linux, but the macOS build supports arm64 and Intel)
> 
> Flatpak works, but building it is a clunky process.  Everything seems to
> install and work if you install it for the system, but the icon doesn't
> show up, and installing it with `flatpak --user` is confusing.
> 
> How important is flatpak to people?  We probably won't release to Flathub
> even if we build a flatpak.
> 
> I don't really want to do Snap, and appimage doesn't seem right for our use
> case, since we are using an embedded Postgresql database, but I'm willing
> to be convinced otherwise.
> 
> Building for Alpine seems like a huge pain, and it's a small user base,
> even by Linux standards.
> 
> How much effort should I put into flatpak, and should I be considering
> other options besides the 3 I mentioned?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -Wes
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