charleyann wrote: ↑Mon Oct 10, 2022 1:32 pm
Please keep the PPA's. There are many of us who refuse to use snaps, flatpaks...
You could even poke Ubuntu developers to make more updated packages for stable versions of FreeCAD.
Probably if many people will ask, some maintainers will make the package.
Main problem is usually that "backporting" for a distribution that is "conservative" like Debian derivatives, in other words use old libraries, for a program like FreeCAD that is developing faster and tend to use relatively new libraries, is not very easy.
You may could add to the matter that Debian derivatives are usually patching sources to adhere to "Debian Policy", and to adapt it to some peculiarities of Debian, so developing for Debian and derivatives is not an easy task, many developers has given up to directly supply Debian packages and resolved to use AppImages or similar. (Snap if I don't go wrong is the Ubuntu answer for bleeding edge software development).
Sadly is a chicken egg problem between stability and reliability, but as example more bleeding edge distribution like Arch Linux and derivative (That I actually use) have the opposite problem, they are too much updated so it is not so easy to cope with them.
IMHO welcome AppImages, conda installs and similar packages or virtual environments.
Regards
Carlo D.