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Chris (moving to jade.moe)@itchio Will there be a flatpak release?
@brainblasted I'm not planning on it. I've been following the various "app container" formats, and I just don't have the resources to support them right now. The app ships with its own updater, its own sandboxing, it's sorta hard to retrofit into what flatpak/snap/appimage expect. ^amos
@brainblasted I'm sure this isn't the last time this will get asked, tbf. And since everything is open-source, there's nothing preventing people from making their own builds, packaged however they want. They just won't be officially supported, because we need to know that we're able to push updates swiftly to all platforms we support. ^amos
@itchio Is there a way to turn off the updater during the build process? I might be able to put together a flapak manifest
@brainblasted you'll probably want to look at:
https://github.com/itchio/itch/blob/40c54ab82d16d33996ebd55f0ac7eb7ac8db8159/src/main/broth/manager.ts#L21
https://github.com/itchio/itch/blob/40c54ab82d16d33996ebd55f0ac7eb7ac8db8159/src/main/broth/manager.ts#L21