Hello, AppImage developer here. May I quickly add my perspective: > is there a central app-store / location to find appimages ?
One objective for the AppImage format is to have a single downloadable file for Linux that can be provided on the original (upstream) project's download pages, next to EXE (Windows) and DMG (macOS) files, and not rely on any central gatekeeper such as a distribution, or a store. That being said, anyone can make a "directory" of AppImages. The AppImage project maintains a list of known AppImages on https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/wiki/AppImages, and there are sites like https://www.openDesktop.org/ that collect software, including AppImages. > if 2 people use it – build it themselves pwrt On http://linux-appimages.org the inofficial LibreOffice AppImage was the download #1 within just a few days of being uploaded. And that is while this site has not been advertised or announced so far. So I'd assume there is quite some interest. > how large is it? The AppImage of the latest daily build with all languages and help files is 271 MB when stripped. I used find LibreOfficeDev.AppDir/ -type f -executable -or -name *.so* -exec strip {} \; > If infra doesnt want to host the appimages, Antonio can host them It is strongly advised that users get AppImages - and, for that matter, any software, even on Windows and macOS - from the official projects and not from "random" download sites. (Yes I know who Antonio is and I trust him, but we can't expect the average user to know.) > chmod +x <downloaded-file-name>" This is a Unix security feature. You can set the executable bit from the properties window of most (all?) desktop environments. With th increasing popularity of AppImages, it is to be expected that desktop environments will handle ELF files with missing executable bits more intelligently (i.e., ask the user what to do). > no real need for Linux portable edition > tar-ball can be unzipped So can the AppImage: ./some.AppImage --appimage-extract An AppImage has the added benefit that it does not have to be unpacked, because it mounts itself, which is a very fast operation and is space-efficient. The discussion so far is missing AppImageUpdate zsync-based binary delta updates, which means that you can do from daily build to daily build by just downloading the few MB that actually have changed. This is much, much faster, easier, and more efficient than what is currently in place. I could imagine this to be especially valuable to testers, who want the latest daily build every day. _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
