Problem with release archive for 1.7.

[Dark Dragon]

Build using release archive fails: https://github.com/flathub/com.github.PintaProject.Pinta/pull/13#issuecomment-671849332

Using the git version (without autogen.sh), works:
https://github.com/flathub/com.github.PintaProject.Pinta/pull/13#issuecomment-671859653

Diff: https://github.com/flathub/com.github.PintaProject.Pinta/pull/13/commits/4dbe7426015e84c713f3453f017cc6f550d1afcd

Version 1.6 was building successfully with release archive: https://github.com/flathub/com.github.PintaProject.Pinta/pull/9#issuecomment-671820201

[Cameron White (cameronwhite91)]

In the build log for https://flathub.org/builds/#/builders/12/builds/2963, if you search higher up it looks like the Mono.Addins library cannot be found - this dependency needs to be installed (for normal Ubuntu packages, this would require installing libmono-addins-cil-dev and libmono-addins-gui-cil-dev).
When building from git, there are copies of these libraries in https://github.com/PintaProject/Pinta/tree/master/lib to facilitate building on Windows / OSX easily, but when packaging for a distribution you'd normally want the libraries from the repository to be used.

Note that there is a difference between https://github.com/PintaProject/Pinta/releases/download/1.6/pinta-1.6.tar.gz and https://github.com/PintaProject/Pinta/archive/1.6.tar.gz, and similarly https://github.com/PintaProject/Pinta/releases/download/1.7/pinta-1.7.tar.gz vs https://github.com/PintaProject/Pinta/archive/1.7.tar.gz.

The 'archive' versions are autogenerated by Github and would be the same as doing a shallow clone (i.e. you need to run autogen.sh, and the prepackaged libs would be there). It looks like your config for 1.6 used the archive tarball whereas the 1.7 config used the release tarball

[Dark Dragon (darkdragon-001)]

Thanks for pointing out the differences. Since flatpak packages libraries, I will continue to prefer the git/archive over release.

This issue can be closed.

[grofaty (grofaty)]

Dark, thanks for feedback. I am marking this bug report as Invalid, because there is no defect in Pinta to be fixed.