Hi Fabio, Interesting. I guess this comes down to whether a piece of software’s platform is where it runs, or where it is consumed. In a remote-terminal environment, the lines blur a bit.
Anyway, it’s fine; I can maintain my own repository for running this on all of my (Arch Linux) servers. Thanks for the reply -Kevin > On Jun 27, 2016, at 03:12, Muflone <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Hello, >> >> I am the (now former) maintainer of the imgcat package in AUR. > > Hi Kevin > >> The package was deleted because it was “Mac-only” software. This is not true. >> imgcat is a shell script that allows images to be displayed in a terminal > > window. (xterm also has this functionality, though I don’t think >> imgcat’soutput escape sequences are compatible.) >> It’s true, it currently only works with iTerm2, which is Mac software. > > > I was unable to use imgcat with both xterm, tilda and gnome-terminal > emulators. I'm pretty sure that is doesn't work with any GNU/Linux terminal > emulator. > > Such software, which only scope is to be used from a Mac only software > shouldn't have a place in the AUR, which is specific to the Arch Linux > distribution. > > Samba, ntfs-3g, hfstools and similar softwares are to be used from any > GNU/Linux to achieve a goal which is directly related to the Arch Linux. > IMHO imgcat doesn't fall in this category. > > Regards. > > -- > Fabio Castelli aka Muflone >
