As I noted in 41b8f2bf77 and #3454, I was
still undecided on how to proceed with the Flatpak going forward, and
was waiting on user feedback.
However, it appears that decision has been made for me. As of the time,
of writing, the page displays "This application is no longer available on
Flathub." "This application is no longer maintained on Flathub", and I
was not notified in any way of the removal.
No idea if this was automated (it's been ~3 months since the last push),
or manual, so I'm not pointing fingers at anyone here. But it is still
completely unprofessional on flathub's part. No other distributor would
remove applications without notifying the developer. Combined with the
constant workflow/CI breakage, new requirements being added and enforced
with little notice, and delisting of anything more than a couple years
old, I would recommend to any application developers considering
flatpak/hub and don't heavily use it themselves: don't, it ain't worth it.
No point keeping it around now, since it was only a copy of the AppImage
anyway, and if I recall correctly there's other tools that can bwrap an
AppImage if you really desire. But IMO the security argument is kinda
weak, if you don't trust the code you're running, don't run it. The app
is still interacting with the rest of the OS regardless...
One less thing to maintain, fewer things to go wrong.
Especially since the number of users can apparently be counted
on one hand.
It's this or I remove it completely.
I originally provided this an alternative to the broken AUR packages.
However, it seems that Arch users would rather use broken packages and
keep complaining to me instead of their packager. I specifically forbid
packages for DuckStation (see README.md), and there's no way to request
removal of these packages without handing my details over to a
distribution I want nothing to do with.
So this is step one. Next step will be removing Linux support entirely,
because I'm sick of the headaches and hacks for an operating system that
only compromises 2% of the userbase, and I don't even use myself. But I'm
hoping the Linux community will be reasonable, because as someone giving
up my free time and not being compensated in any way, I shouldn't have
to deal with this.
Just grep the source for "wayland" and you'll see what I mean.
I'll probably drop it in the future since there was only one or two
people who indicated that they're using it. But at least now I don't
have another file I need to keep up to date.
So consider the Flatpak package as deprecated.
