Kunda1 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 27, 2019 12:23 pm
Fair enough. Would you be open to trying it and see what the response is ?
We have discussed this already in the past more in-depth and this is a short summary. Therefore what you are proposing is on why don't we add Flatpak (and Snap, Fedora Copr, Ubuntu PPA, Conda ...) install options for Linux on the download page directly, and to see if people will like it.
We wanted to provide a download page, that is stylish and modern, like the rest of the FreeCAD home page. To be usable and not to introduce much confusion, by providing a plethora of options, by default. It was decided, that currently on Linux, the most straightforward option is AppImage. No additional software needs to get installed, works on verity of Linux distributions and nothing gets installed on the target system. In the future this decision can get revised, once other Linux oriented solutions will mature more. Based on further discussions an additional note was added, on where to find other install options and info. This information therefore could be put on the download page directly, but Wiki was selected as a better solution, being easier to update. We know, that we don't have a dynamic download page, hence somebody has to make a PR and somebody else has to deploy the changes to our host. Keeping the information updated for plethora of options therefore adds to the maintenance burden.
Hopefully this answers your question and provides rationale on what my current opinion is based on. As for the future and to be honest, i got my "perfect FreeCAD download page" already, as for the next generation, if therefore more overloading is currently considered as being a progress, and you are fine with the additional maintenance work, feel free to pursue yours.