Nightly Subsurface AppImage for most Linux distributions

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Sat Oct 31 09:00:08 PDT 2015


> On Oct 31, 2015, at 8:51 AM, probono <probono at puredarwin.org> wrote:
> 
> 2015-10-31 16:44 GMT+01:00 Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org>:
>> 
>> Just sent screen shots. My guess is that is partially because
>> 15.10 is of course brand new whereas I'm trying on a much
>> older distro and running Gnome 3
> 
> Possibly. This is Fedora 23:
> http://i.imgur.com/9ZfYUOv.png
> No errors and everything looking correct here, too

Agreed.

> Now going to try older distros.

Yes, please.

Here is my rationale (which is slightly different from your goals, and
I'm aware of that). We are making distro specific releases available
for the "current" set of popular distributions with semi-decent Qt5
support.

So we have Ubuntu 15.04/15.10 and Fedora 22/23, OpenSUSE 13.1/2,
plus Gentoo and ArchLinux covered. Ubuntu 14.04 has slightly older 
Qt (5.2) and could benefit from an AppImage with Qt 5.5.1. 

But what would be the most interesting use as far as I'm concerned is 
to be able to offer people who are on older, still supported distros the 
ability to run Subsurface

That's why I mentioned Ubuntu 12.04 and CentOS 5 in the previous
email. Admittedly Fedora 20 is no longer supported, so that's kind of
unfair, but I happened to have a fully configured VM image laying
around and didn't need to download / install / setup and image
before testing.

So F20 isn't /really/ the goal. But Ubuntu 12.04/14.04 and CentOS 5
are. As are some other distros that are reasonably popular but that
we currently don't make packages for.

Zorin, Netrunner, PCLinuxOS, Trisquel... (these are all Linux flavors
that I see connecting to my server - none of them have official binaries).

/D


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