On 17 January, 2017 - Dirk Hohndel wrote: > On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 03:52:32PM +0100, Anton Lundin wrote: > > On 17 January, 2017 - Dirk Hohndel wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 08:05:25AM +0200, Willem Ferguson wrote: > > > > Would it require a lot of time to create an AppImage of this tool? As > > > > far as > > > > I can make out, it is built as a special case of the "normal" Subsurface > > > > build, the main difference being the requirement for two additional > > > > libraries. I cannot see that this AppImage build would need any real > > > > maintenance because the regular updates and patches to Subsurface are > > > > unlikely to affect the import process (unless of course the xml/ssrf > > > > format > > > > itself changes). One could simply call this AppImage something like > > > > smtk2ssrf_v4.6 so that we know it was derived from Subsurface v4.6. Am I > > > > being naïve? > > > > > > I haven't looked into it, but it does not seem to be too hard. > > > As everything else that I do (that all of us do), it's all a matter of > > > time. What should I be spending my "Subsurface time" on? How many people > > > will actually want to use that AppImage? > > > > > > > There was a person asking about it on the google group: > > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/subsurface-divelog/NnwExwro_bQ > > > > There was no feedback after my answer. > > This is like the iOS version of Subsurface-mobile. You all have seen how > much work has gone into making this happen. And from the server logs I see > that we have about 150 users. 1.5% of our user base. Gee, I'm glad I spent > all the time on that. > > The Android version topped out at about 750 active users at one point. > So we slowed development of the desktop app that around ten thousand > people use to a complete crawl for a year in order for about 900 people to > play with the mobile app. With something like this it's hard to tell how > many of those tried it and said "useless" and how many actually use it, > given that most people only dive a very limited number of times a year. > > So, long story short... I'm a bit worried about spending time on the weird > one-off vs on what people actually use. > > (and yes, I am incredibly disappointed with the low numbers of the mobile > versions - it seemed that SO MANY PEOPLE asked for this... but what do I > know)
Salvador might be able to write a app-image generating script for you? =) //Anton -- Anton Lundin +46702-161604 _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list [email protected] http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
