Hi, I’m looking to open-source a small CLI application I wrote and I’m struggling with how to provide the built app since just providing the binary will not work. I had a friend test it and he had to compile from source due to glibc version differences.

My first thought was providing it as a flatpak but that isn’t really suitable for CLI software.

I’ve googled around a bit and most guides I find just mention packaging separately for multiple package managers/formats (rpm, apt etc.). This seems really inefficient/hard to maintain. What is the industry standard for packaging a Linux software for multi-distro use?

  • Vilian@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    the best possible “industry standard” in my opinion is nix, but people need to install it on their machine, other than that don’t package lol, put a curl link in your github/gitlab to how install it and problem solved lol