I’d like to put a request in for the Mercurial source code management command line tool (alternative to git). It has good support in Atlassian Bitbucket and is probably 2nd only to git as an SCM.
It was not installed as part of any of the flatpak runtimes (freedesktop and Gnome platforms) and I really need that to manage my code trees.
One weakness of flatpak it seems is it’s pretty good at managing larger desktop applications but it doesn’t present a good solution for small command line tools. For example, who’s going to bother building a flatpak for a small CLI utility? If you’re lucky it might make it into a flatpak platform runtime, but they can’t include everything someone might need.
I think what’s needed is a “developer” focused flatpak based on Linux LSB with the tools you’d find in busybox plus the most common tool chains, utilities, compilers, profiling tools, debuggers, etc. that a developer would need. Maybe Endless would consider putting something like that together?