Flatpak as part of the development process

[Christian Hergert]

On 03/31/2017 11:26 AM, Aleix Pol wrote:
> To solve this issue, I'd suggest allowing the project directory using
> a relative path to the json file. This will allow to compile what we
> already have, without the round-trip.
> 
> sources: [ { "type": "file", "path": "." } ]
> 
> That said, this could have problems, such as these relative paths
> going outside of the project (e.g. "../myawesomelibrary"). This should
> be an error.
> 
> Does that make sense to you? Am I missing something?

In Builder, we only use flatpak-builder for dependencies and --run for
running. For the "top-most" project, we use our normal incremental build
system abstraction (for which we got the .json file).

So to start building and contributing to a project, all you need to do
when Builder opens is: Clone -> Paste Project URL -> Clone -> Run and
everything happens behind the scenes as you'd expect.

-- Christian