<div dir="ltr">My viewpoint, as developer, this permit to deploy quickly the application, as we can consideration suitable as well, with all components compiled with all optimizations to prevent all know problem.<div><br></div><div>This permit to provide a beta version in few hours for testing and to check if problem reported as really fixed. This permit also to verify if a problem is relevant of application implementation, or relevant of packaging. We receive a lots of report due to packaging dysfunction. Packaging is complex and require a lots of tests. I cannot imagine how distro packager can release files quickly for a distro without any problem...</div><div><br></div><div>Apple and Windows already provide bundle support since a while. After all it work and it simple to use a test an application. The advantage of AppImage is to run application without to install a file on computer. All still in user space.</div><div><br></div><div>Gilles Caulier</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-10-26 13:22 GMT+02:00 James Pirie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jkp@bronyaur.co.uk" target="_blank">jkp@bronyaur.co.uk</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p><font size="+1">Hi Gilles, Derek and Peter,</font></p>
<p><font size="+1">Thanks for your responses. I had not appreciated
what a good idea appimages were/are :) For that reason I have
avoided them. However, having now informed myself it looks like
this is the way forward and will re-install Artful at the next
opportunity and set about downloading my first *.appimage file
:)</font></p>
<p><font size="+1">I wonder though how this system of packaging will
affect the future of Linux Distros in general? Will they become
less or more flexible for all? At the moment I get updates
automatically for all chosen applications. IN the future it may
be more difficult to locate the package I need and, also to keep
up with updates but...on reflection, no more so than with the
dreaded Windows 10 system I suppose ;)</font></p>
<p>Every day is a School day!</p>
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<p>Many thanks again.</p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
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<div class="m_-7092559200700451407moz-cite-prefix">On 25/10/2017 18:23, Peter Albrecht
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<pre>Hello James,
if digikam is not in the default software repository of Artful Aardvark, maybe
digikams AppImage packages are a solute to use digikam in your Linux distribution.
AppImage Download:
<a class="m_-7092559200700451407moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://download.kde.org/stable/digikam/" target="_blank">https://download.kde.org/<wbr>stable/digikam/</a>
Article about AppImage in DigiKam:
<a class="m_-7092559200700451407moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.digikam.org/news/2016-11-07_digiKam_5.3.0_is_published/" target="_blank">https://www.digikam.org/news/<wbr>2016-11-07_digiKam_5.3.0_is_<wbr>published/</a>
AppImage in general:
<a class="m_-7092559200700451407moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppImage" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<wbr>AppImage</a>
I haven't tried this myself, but there has been a lot of talking about DigiKam
AppImage on this mailinglist.
Regards,
Peter
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<pre>Hi all,
Message for Philip Jonsson I suppose :) Do you plan to support Artful
Aardvark with Digikam? I only ask because, once again I have upgraded
and lost Digkam :( Not an urgent thing though because I always have a
backup image and I have reverted to Zesty for now :)If you do have a plan to support Artful, how will I keep an eye
on progress? Would I just visit the ppa pages and look out for a
new package?
Thanks for your continued support.
James Pirie
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