AppImage of scubapro SmartTrak import tool

[Salvador Cuñat]

Good night.

On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 04:34:38PM +0100, Anton Lundin wrote:
> On 17 January, 2017 - Dirk Hohndel wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 03:52:32PM +0100, Anton Lundin wrote:
> > > On 17 January, 2017 - Dirk Hohndel wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 08:05:25AM +0200, Willem Ferguson wrote:
> > > > > Would it require a lot of time to create an AppImage of this tool? As far as
> > > > > I can make out, it is built as a special case of the "normal" Subsurface
> > > > > build, the main difference being the requirement for two additional
> > > > > libraries. I cannot see that this AppImage build would need any real
> > > > > maintenance because the regular updates and patches to Subsurface are
> > > > > unlikely to affect the import process (unless of course the xml/ssrf format
> > > > > itself changes). One could simply call this AppImage something like
> > > > > smtk2ssrf_v4.6 so that we know it was derived from Subsurface v4.6. Am I
> > > > > being naïve?
> > > >
> > > > I haven't looked into it, but it does not seem to be too hard.
> > > > As everything else that I do (that all of us do), it's all a matter of
> > > > time. What should I be spending my "Subsurface time" on? How many people
> > > > will actually want to use that AppImage?
> > > >
> > >
> > > There was a person asking about it on the google group:
> > > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/subsurface-divelog/NnwExwro_bQ
> > >
> > > There was no feedback after my answer.
> >
> > This is like the iOS version of Subsurface-mobile. You all have seen how
> > much work has gone into making this happen. And from the server logs I see
> > that we have about 150 users. 1.5% of our user base. Gee, I'm glad I spent
> > all the time on that.
> >
> > The Android version topped out at about 750 active users at one point.
> > So we slowed development of the desktop app that around ten thousand
> > people use to a complete crawl for a year in order for about 900 people to
> > play with the mobile app. With something like this it's hard to tell how
> > many of those tried it and said "useless" and how many actually use it,
> > given that most people only dive a very limited number of times a year.
> >
> > So, long story short... I'm a bit worried about spending time on the weird
> > one-off vs on what people actually use.
> >
> > (and yes, I am incredibly disappointed with the low numbers of the mobile
> > versions - it seemed that SO MANY PEOPLE asked for this... but what do I
> > know)
>
> Salvador might be able to write a app-image generating script for you? =)
>

I was actually thinking of building AppImage before getting too busy
with the translations. Had, in fact, installed the tool and its
dependencies to take a look.
Will try to build an appimage this weekend, but, please, be patient as
I'm really, really low on time.

Regards.

Salva.