<div dir="ltr">As a developer, and as the main maintainer of the Linux AppImage bundle, i can say :<div><br></div><div>1/ yes, maintain a stand alone bundle take a while, especially to run on all main linux box.</div><div>2/ AppImage as HUGE advantage, as, it include all the DK dependencies that i compile and customize extacly as it must be for DK. For ex, the big puzzle OpenCV is compiled with all options disabled, that we don't use. This prevent crashes especially with Intel thread management implemented in OpenCV. Even if this lib provide great algorithms, they include features that must be relocated in separated library. OpenCV is the most weird open source project that i know.</div><div>3/ AppImage can be used as well, quickly, to test new features, without to install anything. this permit to check if a bug have been fixed with mast commit, without that user need to compile anything. So AppImage is the best thing which arrive in open source world and especially in Linux. this remove the complexity to user, permit to advance in the project quickly, and permit all regression test by the users. So the loop between dev and users is closed well.</div><div>4/ It take now 10 minutes to update AppImage bundle after a fix, on my computer. You cannot do better. Integrating AppImage in a Continuous Integration process is the miracle about software management.</div><div><br></div><div>So to resume :</div><div><br></div><div>1/ I support AppImage</div><div>2/ I will continuous to support AppImage in the future.</div><div>3/ If you don't like AppImage, ask to your packagers to update and support digiKam application natively in your system, because we (digiKam team) don't it instead.</div><div><br></div><div>Voilà</div><div><br></div><div>Gilles Caulier </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2018-08-18 12:52 GMT+02:00 Rafael Linux User <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rafael.linux.user@gmail.com" target="_blank">rafael.linux.user@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">As an (advanced) Linux user, I see appimages are just like "portables" applications in Windows. They are not intended to replace installed applications. They are practical solutions to specific situations, so the user has the chance to decide if that's what he need or not for those situations.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">For example, I have been using appimages of GIMP cause it was the simplest way to have in my system the 2.10 version. It was not the easier way to work with it, but for me to have it was a priority over commodity.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">And for beta testing I think it's a great solution, instead wait to have it in repositories or to compile by ourselves.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Appimages are a great idea IMHO.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Regards</div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">El vie., 17 ago. 2018 21:41, Jono pollard <<a href="mailto:jono.pollard@gmail.com" target="_blank">jono.pollard@gmail.com</a>> escribió:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Greetings,</span><div style="font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br style="font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><div style="font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Love digikam but not thrilled with appimage. If I were a dev for digikam wouldn't waste more resources using that system. It isn't intuitive and leaves one wandering where to put the file and how to integrate it into their system. I'd rather use an older version through my distributions packaging system than have one random program use a completely obtuse system. That's what I'm going to do but I wanted to share the opinions of a regular digikam user. I get what appimage is about, but unless all of linux switches to installing programs this way, it ends up just being clunky.</div><div style="font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"></div><div style="font-family:Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Jono</div></div><br></div>
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