[scribus-dev] Scribus 1.5.1svn AppImage

Gregory Pittman gpittman at iglou.com
Sat Dec 5 16:23:38 UTC 2015


On 12/05/2015 09:57 AM, probono wrote:

> Is the Subsurface project interested in maintaing an
> upstream-generated AppImage? Upstream packaging would have the
> advantage that users/testers get the software exactly in the way the
> upstream team intended, with the correct versions of the libraries
> bundled together with the application. Just let me know what would be
> needed to consider this for the project.
> 

There already is a project, PortableApps, that has been doing this for
some time. It's probably worth comparing the two methods. If AppImage
can be integrated into our release system, that would be an advantage,
since for PortableApps we're dependent on their way of working.

Greg




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