[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Feature request: Please provide an AppImage for Geany (#1303)

[elextr]

> What I don't want to do is do "third-party packages". I am willing to help the Geany project make official ones.

Well, if its in a repository inside the Geany organisation like the OSX packaging is, that should be official enough.  

But as has been said before, the "Geany project" itself does not want to make distributions or include distribution support inside the main repository.  Or rather, as the "Geany project" is a collection of volunteers, not a corporate supported entity with paid contributors, the volunteers have declined to use their own spare time for this purpose.

And that applies to the Geany plugins collection as well.  

Whilst the Geany team has declined to volunteer to support making a distribution themselves, they have not said it should not be done and do not want to prevent it being done, as you can see from the level of assistance provided above to someone who did do it.

Using a repository separate from both Geany and Geany-plugins would put the package in the same place for convenience.  The maintainer of the package can be allowed to commit to that repository as the OSX maintainer does to the OSX repository, without having to make pull requests on the main repository.  Pull requests on the main repository need contributors with commit rights to review and test it, and most of them have already stated that they are not interested in doing so for distribution packaging related things.

By the way, that the windows packaging material is in the main repositories is purely historical, it might be nice to separate it too, but nobody has the time to spare to do that, so it will stay for now.  But the originator of the windows packaging continues to support it.



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