Add support for Pi-Apps - app store for Raspberry Pi / ARM computers

[janAkali]

We can publish Forge on Pi-Apps appstore.
Supported systems:

• Raspberry Pi OS
• Switchroot L4T Ubuntu Bionic
• Raspberry Pi Ubuntu, Raspberry Pi Pop_OS!
• Nvidia Jetson, Pine64, Orange Pi, Radxa, Bananna Pi, Khadas, Inovato, Libre Computer, and other ARM Debian/Ubuntu Based Devices

I already made a necessary script to install java and latest snapshot from FTP server on arm devices, see pi-apps/#2264

But,

https://downloads.cardforge.org/dailysnapshots/ does not include previous days snapshots. so this app will break every day. this is not suitable for pi-apps, we need old versions to be cached as we only update apps weekly and users are not expected to always have the latest app versions on their local pi-apps installs.

Can we provide, let's say, up to 10 previous snapshots on ftp server or move snapshots to pre-releases?

As an alternative, I also set up this repo - https://github.com/Archargelod/forge-snapshot-archive with a simple workflow that archives every snapshot and publishes it as release, daily. - but it's a very janky solution, I'd like to avoid.

[Hanmac]

For Releases we could get the Releases on Github working

for snapshots i don't know, are Beta Releases too much?

[janAkali]

Essentially, pi-apps updates link (or tag of github release) to latest snapshot weekly and they want to have this snapshot be available under said link/tag for atleast a week (longer = better, because users can opt-out from updating).

If you're concerned about cluttering the releases page :

1. Github separates pre-releases and actual releases. For example, "latest release" will always be "release" and not a snapshot.
2. We can use delete releases action or something similar to keep only N number of previous snapshots (filtered by tags).

[tool4ever]

I understand users want the newest cards asap but one of the reasons we only offer one snapshot at a time is helping our workload tbh
It's difficult to get an accurate estimate for this, but things will break and in that case people possibly falling back to 7 days old ones or even more this way doesn't sound great to me 🤔

That said with the current approach we try hard to get the release schedule back to quicker intervals

[tehdiplomat]

We already have releases here: https://github.com/Card-Forge/forge/releases ?

Also we have old releases on our ftp: https://releases.cardforge.org/forge/forge-gui-desktop/

[janAkali]

@tehdiplomat , I didn't know about that second link, thank you.
I wanted to specifically support snapshot version because it has less bugs, more features and support. Both on Github and Discord I see encouragements to use snapshot version and use releases as a fallback. Also, Adventure mode wasn't fully implemented in release version until last week.

But if releases will be more frequent, as @tool4ever said, I think that's fine.

[tehdiplomat]

We were encouraging that because the tooling had broken and the main dev that ran manual releases had been busy with life stuff. Now that (at least PC) releases are on github-actions. I expect to run that much more often.

I'm not sure I would say snapshot has less bugs, it just has different ones. And potentially worse ones.

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