[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Ubuntu ppa dev contains only old versions (#1338)

[elextr]

@franco999 the Geany team are not experts in packaging, especially the arcane rules each distro has and so will not make packages.  The only package Geany makes is the Windows one since Windows does not have packagers.  Even the OSX release is the work of a single packager.  Instead we rely on the expertise of specialist packaging contributors for each distro.  But, being individuals they sometimes have periods of limited time so some distros/PPAs are slower to update than others.

Flatpacks sound nice in theory, but when someone tried to make a Geany one they found it wasn't as simple as the website would lead you to believe.  So until somebody contributes the infrastructure to create any of the "portable" package formats they won't happen either.  

And until one of the competing formats wins and the software is installed on all distros by default they have the problem for us of multiple targets and for users of needing to install some supporting software to install Geany.

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