Publish on FlatHub? (draft flatpak manifest attached)
I saw your recent announcement on r/linux for version 1.0.8. As an avid cyclist and FOSS enthusiast, ZombieTrackerGPS seems like a really interesting piece of software! I know there was some interest expressed in packaging the application with FlatPak / Snap / AppImage so I thought I'd try to help on that front.
I've attached a FlatPak manifest and a couple supporting files ZombieTrackerGPS-FlatPak.tar.gz. This is my first attempt at packaging for FlatPak and I'm certain it can be cleaned up, but it builds and install locally without issue. It also seems to run okay for me (ArchLinux / SwayWM), but I'm not using the full range of features (ex: GPSD). There may be some permissions missing.
Would you be interested in trying to publish ZombieTrackerGPS on Flathub? From their documentation, they prefer application authors to self-publish. See here for the process: https://github.com/flathub/flathub/wiki/App-Submission
Steps to build:
- Install flatpak & flatpak-builder
- Extract the attached archive
- flatpak-builder --user --install --force-clean build-dir net.zombietrackergps.ZombieTrackerGPS.yml
- flatpak run net.zombietrackergps.ZombieTrackerGPS
Other notes
- FlatHub captures download statistics (https://github.com/flathub/flathub/wiki/App-Maintenance#download-statistics) which might give you some insight into use
- I'm sure the patch and build-rcc.sh script can probably be negated with updates to your build scripts