2025-04-15
5:24 PM
- last edited on
2025-04-16
12:45 AM
by
Lina_DABASINSKA
It would be awesome if STM applications (in my case, STM32CubeMX) were available as packages for ease of installation and update. I believe this is even already the case for STM32CubeIDE.
Software package managers are a precious tool for end users. It's always embarrassing when some app ships in other ways. I do understand that it might look daunting to maintain different packages for different operating systems (.deb, .rpm, homebrew, winget, ...), but almost every open source project manages to do that, so I believe it should be doable for any large company as well. It might allow to use the system JRE and eventually other dependencies directly as well, instead of shipping them together with each app.
Bonus points would be if it was possible to download said packages from public repositories. But I understand this would remove the need to log in to an STM account to obtain the software, which you might not want.
I've searched for appropriate place to post this, but couldn't be sure. Is this the right place?