Artful Aardvark

[Gilles Caulier]

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.

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...

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.

Gilles Caulier

2017-10-26 13:22 GMT+02:00 James Pirie <jkp at bronyaur.co.uk>:

> Hi Gilles, Derek and Peter,
>
> 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 :)
>
> 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 ;)
>
> Every day is a School day!
>
>
> Many thanks again.
>
>
> James
>
> On 25/10/2017 18:23, Peter Albrecht wrote:
>
> 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:https://download.kde.org/stable/digikam/
>
> Article about AppImage in DigiKam:https://www.digikam.org/news/2016-11-07_digiKam_5.3.0_is_published/
>
> AppImage in general:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppImage
>
> I haven't tried this myself, but there has been a lot of talking about DigiKam
> AppImage on this mailinglist.
>
> Regards,
> 	Peter
>
> On 25.10.2017 14:22, James Pirie wrote:
>
> 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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