Jordan Petridis / is on Nostr

24 y/old kid without future.  GNOME, GStreamer, Release engineer, QA monkey. Multimedia Stuff. Flatpak and GNOME OS. Working at Centricular Ltd (npub1ma7…275l) .
 Randomly complaining about computers and "foss". 

Pronouns: he/him
gitlab: https://gitlab.gnome.org/alatiera
github: https://github.com/alatiera
blog: https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/

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2024-08-21 23:42:58

Rejoice! GNOME 47.Beta is released!
https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-47-beta-released/22919?u=alatiera
#gnome #linux #gtk #flatpak
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2024-08-05 20:53:37

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yeap, looking at the 23.08 branch of that extension should be a good enough approximation

2024-07-17 13:59:45

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Finally, I had not talked about this in public nor was going to before reaching out to the asahi team. We've been talking about different to addressing this issue among Flatpak/runtime developers for a while and wanted to explore the different solutions once I had access to an asahi machine again.
Likewise you could have asked why shipping an extension as a distro package and using that flatpak-builder manifest is a dead end and how it would explode ;)

2024-07-17 13:59:36

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Again similarly, the only systems affected by this logic in Flatpak would be asahi ones, which already control what version of Flatpak they ship so there shouldn't be any issue with transitioning through schemes or fully upstreamin the drivers.

2024-07-17 13:59:15

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Additionally, we could be looking at any factor/number/version you need, be it uabi, kernel or completely different one. You already control what version of mesa, kernel and flatpak you ship so it can always be kept working in that sense. Just that it will need a heads up to rebuild the extension against the new identifier but otherwise the update will work seamless and will only have to ship and build it once.

2024-07-15 19:51:42

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Some of us have been working on an upstream patch that teaches flatpak itself about the asahi uabi versions and mounts the appropriate GL extension if found. Pretty much same thing we do for nvidia.
Sadly I only have access to an asahi machine when my friend Jonas is around so didn't have time to finish the work

2024-07-15 19:46:55

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Hi,
This workaround is breaking applications if they happen to be using a runtime which won't match/mount the `org.freedesktop.Platform//{22.08, 23.08}` versions
What happens is that flatpak will happily only try to mount that driver, as it's an env var not configuration, and your apps will end up without a GL extension mounted at all.
This means that any flathub-beta application using 24.08 or gnome-nightly are currently broken due to the FLATPAK_GL_DRIVERS override.

2024-05-17 13:00:17

PSA: PPSSPP and Retro Arch are now available on the App Store (Somehow?)
https://www.libretro.com/index.php/retroarch-on-apple-app-store/
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/retroarch/id6499539433
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ppsspp-psp-emulator/id6496972903

2024-04-22 20:18:20

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