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For historical reasons g_qsort_with_data() "only" works with up to 2**31 items, so it won't necessarily work for pathologically large arrays and therefore is deprecated. One advantage of g_qsort_with_data() and its replacement g_sort_array() is that GLib guarantees that they are a stable sort (will not permute items that already compare equal), which is not a guarantee for glibc's qsort() and qsort_r(). However, I don't think it's actually relevant whether we are doing a stable sort in any of these places: most of the time we are sorting an array of unique items (often the keys of a hash table, which are necessarily unique), therefore the compare function will not compare equal in any case. Another advantage of the GLib functions is that they are portable, unlike qsort_r(). However, Flatpak is Linux-only, so we can freely use useful functions like qsort_r(). Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
Flatpak is a system for building, distributing, and running sandboxed desktop applications on Linux.
See https://flatpak.org/ for more information.
Flatpak is available in the package repositories of most Linux distributions and can be installed from there. See https://flatpak.org/setup/ for quick setup instructions for many distributions.
Community discussion happens in #flatpak:matrix.org, on the mailing list, and on the Flathub Discourse.
Read documentation for Flatpak here.
Contributing
Flatpak welcomes contributions from anyone! Here are some ways you can help:
- Fix one of the issues and submit a PR
- Update flatpak's translations and submit a PR
- Improve flatpak's documentation, hosted at http://docs.flatpak.org and developed over in flatpak-docs
- Find a bug and submit a detailed report including your OS, flatpak version, and the steps to reproduce
- Add your favorite application to Flathub by writing a flatpak-builder manifest and submitting it
- Improve the Flatpak support in your favorite Linux distribution
Hacking
See CONTRIBUTING.md
Related Projects
Here are some notable projects in the Flatpak ecosystem:
- Flatseal: An app for managing permissions of Flatpak apps without using the CLI
- Flat-manager: A tool for managing Flatpak repositories