Ubuntu Make is a cli tool which allows users to simply install a variety of development tools direct from the main suppliers rather than having to use the version from the Ubuntu/Debian archive. For example, the version in the archive is 0.8.5b.
Ubuntu Make can download the binary from your site, compare the md5 sum to one provided by you to assure the download is correct, and then install it and take care of putting the .desktop file in the right place.
Make also has a significant number of tests which can allow us to spot potential problems very quickly and get them fixed.
To be clear, we wouldn’t be hosting your binaries, the user would run the Make tool would download the binaries directly from you. If you can also provide an MD5 sum we will check against that before installing.
As a user of Fritzing, I’d love to see it be available via Ubuntu Make.
If you are happy for us to proceed please let me know.
This would be truly great! We looked at the Ubuntu app store once, but couldn’t really figure out the process.
If there’s an automated/curated management, we’d be happy to get included.
What exactly would we need to provide to make this happen? There’s already a fritzing.desktop file, and md5 is optional you say (though we could add that. Anything else we need to do?
Cool, blessings you have!
MD5 and link to the latest download should be possible, https probably not too soon.
We’ll let you know when there is progress.
Actually, there is a PPA on launchpad which you can use to install the most up-to-date version of fritzing by including “ppa:ehbello/fritzing” in your system’s repository sources.