BSD export templates by default?

[KieranCrossland]

Is there any plan to include the BSD Operating Systems (OpenBSD, FreeBSD, etc) in the official export templates? unless there is some obscure reason (unknown to me) that prevents BSD templates being shipped, I don't understand why they cant be included by default.

If anyone knows more about BSD exports with Godot, please reply to this thread. 🙂
Thank you for listening to my discussion.

[AThousandShips]

Does the Linux export template not support it?

[KieranCrossland]

If it does it is still makes no hint that it supports other UNIXes other than Linux.
perhaps having OpenBSD/X11 and FreeBSD/X11 would demystify it for developers.

[Calinou]

unless there is some obscure reason (unknown to me) that prevents BSD templates being shipped, I don't understand why they cant be included by default.

While Godot can be built for various *BSDs, building export templates for all *BSDs is difficult. We need to ensure these ports work correctly over time too, which is nontrivial given these have relatively few users. Remember that different *BSD distributions are not compatible with each other, unlike Linux (and there's no solution like Flatpak to avoid this).

[KieranCrossland]

Thanks for clarifying. I guess that supporting the multiple BSDs is more complex than Linux, especially with their much smaller user base.
perhaps maybe just supporting Open and Free BSD would be fine, since they are the most used BSDs I'm pretty sure.
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