Re: [Interest] Official linuxdeployqt ?

2022-08-09 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Wed, 10 Aug 2022, Hamish Moffatt via Interest wrote: > 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. It is, with the added complication of mixing things of

Re: [Interest] Official linuxdeployqt ?

2022-08-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt via Interest
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

Re: [Interest] Official linuxdeployqt ?

2022-08-09 Thread Roland Hughes via Interest
Well, It's certainly not "optimal" and I don't believe it should have a high priority. It will lead to many horrible hacks for people compiling 32-bit on a 64-bit machine. Roland On 8/9/22 10:17, Alexander Dyagilev wrote: I think that an optimal solution (and a pretty fit for me) would be

Re: [Interest] Official linuxdeployqt ?

2022-08-09 Thread Alexander Dyagilev
I think that an optimal solution (and a pretty fit for me) would be for the linuxdeployqt to just deploy all the necessary files next to the specified binary. It's up to a developer what to do next with all the files. Of course, linuxdeployqt can also support (optionally) any number of

Re: [Interest] Official linuxdeployqt ?

2022-08-09 Thread Roland Hughes via Interest
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

Re: [Interest] Official linuxdeployqt ?

2022-08-09 Thread Bernhard Lindner
AppImages are a breeze. For both developer and user. An easy to use Qt-provided tool for that purpose would be fantastic. On Mo, 2022-08-08 at 18:03 -1200, Vadim Peretokin via Interest wrote: > Just to correct some biases here, in my opinion as a software publisher > AppImage is > still the

Re: [Interest] Official linuxdeployqt ?

2022-08-09 Thread Joerg Bornemann
On 8/9/22 08:03, Vadim Peretokin via Interest 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. Yes, it provides a similar experience like macOS app bundles. What linuxdeployqt definitely must offer

Re: [Interest] Official linuxdeployqt ?

2022-08-09 Thread Vadim Peretokin via Interest
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