I like it so far! CI is failing though.

I'm wondering, does this CI workflow push the eventual Flatpak to a repo of some sorts people can use?

Uh nvm, CI isn't failing, I was looking at an old commit 🙈

So yeah just that question, otherwise this looks good to go.

I'm wondering, does this CI workflow push the eventual Flatpak to a repo of some sorts people can use?

Sadly not. We need to create a Flatpak remote for that. For now, we can only manually install using artifacts, see https://github.com/marketplace/actions/flatpak-builder#deployment-stage.

@TheEvilSkeleton how did you generate cargo-sources.json? I wanted to update a dependency but CI now fails because of it not being present in that file 🤔

@PureTryOut this should help you out: https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak-builder-tools/tree/master/cargo

If you need help, feel free to ask.

Interesting. I'm not sure I'm a fan of developers having to install those tools somehow locally and running it every time they want to update some dependency 🤔

The intended usage of the generators is as a submodule used as part of your build process to generate manifests.

Can we not copy include the script as a submodule and run it as part of some cargo build or cargo run command or something?

Interesting. I'm not sure I'm a fan of developers having to install those tools somehow locally and running it every time they want to update some dependency thinking

It's not really mandatory, but advisable. Now that everyone pushes reproducible builds, we kind of have to do that. If you want, we can give the build system network access, but I would advise against.

Can we not copy include the script as a submodule and run it as part of some cargo build or cargo run command or something?

Of course we can :)

I don't know how to include a single script as a submodule, though. I only know how to use repos as submodules.

Well you can include the repo as a submodule but then only use the script from it. If that's doable then please add that, it would make it so much easier to change and update deps in the future!