On 9/8/22 23:50, Roland Hughes via Interest wrote:
On 8/9/22 05:00, Vadim Peretokin wrote:
Just to correct some biases here, in my opinion as a software publisher
AppImage is still the simplest way for a user to run your app.?
To get Mudlet (a FOSS text games client) all you need to do is go to
https://www.mudlet.org/download, download the .tar, right-click to
extract it and double-click to run.?
Not to discount your experience, but I've been in IT almost 40 years
now. Not once in my career have I ever used an AppImage. I have used
Debian, RPM, Snap, and Flatpak.
Most companies and many Linux distros have started making it more
difficult for someone to "just download and install from a Web site"
because Malware is everywhere.
When your OpenSource project includes the scripts to make a proper
Debian or RPM package, you dramatically increase the odds of getting
your package into the actual distro repos. Does any distro actually
put AppImage files in their repo? I'm asking. I have never heard of it
but that doesn't mean there isn't some obscure distro doing that.
I have never used an AppImage in 25 years of Debian and Linux experience
either. It sounds equivalent to downloading a random unsigned .EXE from
a web site and running it. I prefer official deb packages, or OCI/Docker
container images, or at least a proper third party deb (ideally in a
repository).
Flatpak offers signed builds and sandboxing. If you were going to build
a deployment format into linux deployqt it would have to be a modern
format that included signing and sandboxing.
regards
Hamish
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