firelord wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2024 9:28 am
We're talking about keeping alive an old computer in the future.
AppImage's goal is portability, having the same file run on every distro. It should work if it's correctly built.
Agree with the rest. I'm not a fan of AppImage but it works.
firelord wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2024 9:28 am
Snap/Flatpak
Can't we just leave the rumours and biased criticisms out? Every app is dependent of its creators. Tomorrow anyone could buy your favourite ZX emulator and charge you anything they want.
Snap and Flatpak are open-source, and specially the latter is backed by a big community.
Flatpak will install the dependencies required by the app. The good thing about it is that it will install them only once for every app using that dependency. With Snap or AppImage, the dependencies are duplicated for every app.
Let's make it easier for devs to learn about the options.
Edit: I guess you meant that Snap/Flatpak depend on a server for installing/updating. My analogy is not the same in that case. Anyway, the server component is also open-source as everything needed to setup your own server. I don't think they're going away, so probably your AppImages will stop working first if not updated.
Edited by PJ to remove excess quoting