On 7/13/23 21:48, 'Kay F. Jahnke' via hugin and other free panoramic
software wrote:
And the remark about the app image being "big". Those persons do not
understand that you can create a universal 64bit intel for many
platforms in one go which saves the developer a lot of time
when developing open-source for his users (aa\nd him/herself of
course). One developer can support a lot of users in one app image
build run.
So it exists solely for the convenience of the developer? Or, rather,
the convenience of the developer outweighs that of the much larger
number of users?
Obviously they still work from floppy disks as modern systems have
huge amounts of disk space. And then they produce a single (tif) pano
of 200~250 MB based on raw/tif images of 20~50 MB each. And when you
record a 4k movie at a 100 MBps you have a video of 1GB after a minute.
What is that compared to a "small" appImage?
Well, just to put somethings to rest about this before I proceed to
ignore it.
My system has an i9 processor, 64GB RAM, 2TB of fast NVME SSD, and
NVidia graphics. In addition, I have 14TB of storage in my file server.
Not a floppy disk in sight on either system.
So I'm not choosing to refuse to put the effort into AppImages, flatpaks
and other such developer conveniences because my system is under-powered
or anything.
I'm choosing not to bother with them because I would rather spend my
disk space on my images, which are more important to me.
Regarding lux. The non-appimage version runs here, with its
non-intuitive way of handling mouse movements and image banding that
bugs the heck out of me.
I think lux would be more useful as a library usable by other programs
(like Hugin, Krita, GIMP, Blender, Inkscape) to tap GPU power for
remapping and rendering.
But, anyway, have fun!
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