Revert build from source

[fabiojb]

Revert changes made on PR #85 that broke flathubbot updates (see #102 and #103)

[flathubbot]

Started test build 173571

[flathubbot]

Build 173571 failed

[flathubbot]

Started test build 173575

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Build 173575 successful
To test this build, install it from the testing repository:

flatpak install --user https://dl.flathub.org/build-repo/156704/rest.insomnia.Insomnia.flatpakref

[hexchain]

I'm all for a simpler update process but how do we support aarch64 when the upstream doesn't provide a binary?

[fabiojb]

@hexchain Building from source would require a manual update of sources.json on every Insomnia update where dependencies change.

I tried to create a flatpak build step to generate sources.json automatically, and then proceed building from source, but with no success. It doesn't seem that flatpak-builder-tools is intended to be used during flatpak builds.

So my conclusion is that there is no way to support aarch64 builds without upstream support, unless there is someone available to manually update sources.json on every new release.

Maybe opening an issue upstream and request aarch64 binaries for new releases could be a more viable way of solving this.

[fabiojb]

Also, maybe using Github Actions to create an updated version of sources.json, triggered by upstream new releases, and using that to build from source could be another way

[hexchain]

I tried to create a flatpak build step to generate sources.json automatically, and then proceed building from source, but with no success. It doesn't seem that flatpak-builder-tools is intended to be used during flatpak builds.

Indeed, that tool is not supposed to be run inside flatpak builds (see here).

A bigger problem is that tool cannot handle some corner cases in this project (e.g. dependency on git repo in package.json), which requires even more manual operation (see the scripts directory for an attempt at making this process less painful). The current workaround is to add the git repo as a source, build it, and replace its path in the relevant package.json. However, there is another git repo dependency (in versions >10.1.0) that I haven't figured out how to correctly override since it is a transitive dependency. I'm not knowledgeable enough with the JS ecosystem so I'd appreciate some helps.

Meanwhile I'll open an issue in the upstream repo to ask for aarch64 binary support.

[hexchain]

Kong/insomnia#8306