AppImage packaging...

[Veaceslav Munteanu]

I see that Krita have both AppImage and Snapcraft images, maybe we can ask
them for some help...

On 9 Aug 2016 6:07 pm, "Gilles Caulier" <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:

> No
>
> Even if Krita has reduced KDE dependencies as digiKam, it still some rules
> around KDE core API, especially the run-time at startup, that we have
> dropped.
>
> In fact KDELibs is not a problem to bundle. I do it with Windows and MacOS
> without problem after a dependencies reduce and especially the runtime,
> which is a big puzzle. That explain the KDE application running outside
> Linux is poor.
>
> Gilles
>
> 2016-08-09 17:08 GMT+02:00 Veaceslav Munteanu <veaceslav.munteanu90 at gmail.
> com>:
>
>> Hello Gilles,
>>
>> I think digikam right now is not ready to be packaged as AppImage.
>>
>> The main reason is because it still depends on kdelibs. I think Krita
>> is pure Qt. AppImage tries to bundle everything in one file:
>> 1. digikam sources
>> 2. boost
>> 3. opencv
>> 4. exiv
>> 5. raw
>> 6 Qt?
>>
>> etc..but it will be very bad to include all KDE and it's dependencies.
>>
>> Veaceslav
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 1:49 PM, Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi all users,
>> >
>> > As you know, MacOS and Windows packaging are now easy to generate
>> > automatically with my sets of BASH scripts in digiKam.
>> >
>> > I thinking to add AppImage bundle, as Krita do.
>> >
>> > http://appimage.org/
>> >
>> > But as i pass 2 full months of works to packaging MacOS and Windows, I
>> would
>> > to be more efficient with Linux Bundle. I'm a little bit tired with
>> > packaging stuff... After all, i'm developer, not packager. So if a
>> > contributor would to help me in this task, it will be great.
>> >
>> > First Q : There is a real needs for Linux Bundle ? I think yes, even if
>> > Linux distro do the job, and i know very well how it's complicated to
>> do...
>> >
>> > 2nd Q : Somebody know if an automatic service already exist to create a
>> > Linux Bundle as AppImage ?
>> >
>> > 3nd Q : AppImage is the best choice to make Linux Bundle ? I know that
>> other
>> > solutions exists, but i have no experience on it.
>> >
>> > Best
>> >
>> > Gilles Caulier
>>
>
>
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