Reconsider Flatpak packages

[p5]

Is your feature request related to a problem?
Installing DevPod on other Linux distributions comes with challenges dealing with AppImage dependencies. It would be nice to have packages provided by Loft.sh for Flatpaks on Flathub so installing DevPod is as easy as any other software.

Which solution do you suggest?
I noticed you are now working on the Tauri v2 migration, which comes with a lot of improvements. The one I'm most looking forward to are the Flatpak and RPM support which should make providing these packages trivial.
Flatpak is distro-agnostic, and works across many distributions, so I'd suggest starting with this to provide the most value to users.

Which alternative solutions exist?
I, along with the other Universal Blue collaborators, have been maintaining Fedora COPR RPM packaging of DevPod for a couple years, though this has a ton of problems, especially when running with Nvidia GPUs. I'm hoping the switch to Tauri v2, and Tauri's native support for this format, will resolve these issues.

Additional context
This has previously been rejected since Tauri v1 didn't support these packaging formats, which is why I'm hoping we can give it another shot. 🤞

[pascalbreuninger]

Hey @p5, you're right, with tauri v2 we should have a significantly easier way of distributing flatpak and RPMs. In the past we've shied away from supporting more than one linux package type because of the added support and maintenance overhead.

It's amazing that you and other collaborators stepped up and created their own packages, thank you!

I'm going to leave this issue open until we've changed the pipeline

[castrojo]

Happy to run into ya'll at Kubecon! As (quickly) discussed, I'd be happy to help link you up with the right folks at Flathub to get you going as fast as we can. Let me know how I can help, thanks!

[p5]

I've scoped this issue down to only providing Flatpak packages hosted on Flathub.
Flatpaks reduce the need for RPMs and other distribution-specific packaging, so it seems the most valuable format to look at first (and it uses the pre-existing, and working, .deb formats behind the scenes).

[pascalbreuninger]

@p5 Agree, we've been working on flatpak support pre tauri v2 already but stopped because tauri added it natively
@castrojo Thanks for chiming in :)

[DelicateIntegral]

Is there any specific timeline where we can expect the flatpak to be published?