PPA(s) are dead – long live the flatpak!

Cura is growing more and more dependencies. Since these are often not packaged by the Debian/Ubuntu folks, it would additional packaging for which I don’t have (simply) the time. Furthermore, the benefit of the investment of time is minimal since only Ubuntu users profit in first hand from PPAs. Therefore I decided to put my efforts into flatpaks. The advantage is pretty obvious: one software base to build software on and targetting multiple distributions, e.g. incl. ChromeOS.

There are some software components missing still.

Cura on flatpak: Splash screen
Cura on flatpak: Splash screen

But, however, slicing works so far.

Cura on flatpak: First slicing result
Cura on flatpak: First slicing result

There will be likely a lot that needs to be discussed with Ultimaker to get my patches accepted, therefore, don’t expect fast results.