[digiKam-users] appimage

[Mica Semrick]

Another KDE dev created a flatpak manifest for the nightly version of digiKam, so adapting that manifest to the stable version should not be difficult, given that someone wants to do that work.

I might take a stab at it if I find some time.

-m

On August 18, 2018 10:13:08 AM PDT, Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:
>Flat pack vs AppImage : this is a good question
>
>2 years ago I was contacted by the AppImage Lead developer to propose a
>digikam bundle
>
>I this tile I was already take a look to the bundles for Linux.
>Flatpack
>was not really documented and AppImage very well. With the help of
>AppImage, the Rita team which already provide an AppImage bundle I
>created
>a first version in 3 weeks with the minimum features. Since this time I
>create a lots of bash scripts to create the bundles with a good
>documentation. This include also windows with a cross compilation
>through
>mixe, and macOS using Mac ports.
>
>Flatpack is more mature now and more secure from the start to send box
>the
>application better than AppImage.
>AppImage has now the same concept, so there is no more advantage to use
>flatpack.
>
>So I will not investigate to create a flatpack version of DK. If
>someone
>want to do it, no problem, but I maintain the AppImage and my time is
>limited
>
>Other important point : keep provide a bundle factory including
>AppImage,
>windows installer and Mac package
>This use step by step the craft framework. This can be fine for small
>applications, but for digikam we need something we’ll customized.
>
>https://binary-factory.kde.org/
>
>Perhaps, in the future, we will use this service, but for the moment,
>the
>do scripts do the job well since a very long time, where craft
>framework
>still under development ( I receive the mails from the team)
>
>Voilà for this story. Packaging is complex job and take a while, but a
>complex application badly packaged cannot work properly and finally,
>users
>will report the application as completely bugous.
>
>Gilles caulier
>
>
>Le sam. 18 août 2018 à 17:22, <digikam at 911networks.com> a écrit :
>
>> On Sat, 18 Aug 2018 14:35:12 +0200
>> Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > So to resume :
>> >
>> > 1/ I support AppImage
>> > 2/ I will continuous to support AppImage in the future.
>> > 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.
>>
>> I like the principle of appimage. It allows me to use DK. Currently,
>> I'm on xfce. It makes my life simple.
>>
>> Question to Gilles:
>>
>> appimage vs flatpak.
>>
>> More and more are using flatpak to include everything. My son, in
>> academia/bioinfomatics requires that people send their software in
>> "flatpaks" which is becoming quite well accepted in academia.
>>
>> BTW, Isn't GIMP also using flatpak with Redhat supporting the
>project?
>>
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