Thunderbird 102 Released: A Serious Upgrade to Your Communication

• AppImageLauncher

  183 4,886 4.1 C++

  Helper application for Linux distributions serving as a kind of "entry point" for running and integrating AppImages

I believe most projects that serve debs from their own download page do not try to package for each distro separately, and instead opt to package up requirements as needed.

I can't comment deeply on deb vs rpm, it is kinda disappointing that we have this split, and I don't know if there's a great way to merge it back.

Mac does have a good distribution story. This also exists on Linux in the form of app images. The one missing piece is that Mac has the Applications convention. AppImageLauncher[0] solves this, but really it would be good for Gnome/KDE to just integrate this concept.

I do not believe one could qualify Windows programs as being distributed as a single binary. A single installer, perhaps! But many Windows programs dump files all over your file tree to do things, and then goes to touch stuff in your registry. There's a reason we have "portable executables" for windows as its own download option!

[0]: https://github.com/TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher

• exteditor

  2 104 10.0 JavaScript

  Edit Thunderbird emails in an external text editor

  

I’m still stuck pre78 because I like to use an external editor. https://github.com/exteditor/exteditor/issues/74

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• davmail

  2 539 8.7 Java

  DavMail POP/IMAP/SMTP/Caldav/Carddav/LDAP Exchange and Office 365 Gateway - Synced with main subversion repository at

You can bypass that with running a local instance of davmail - https://github.com/mguessan/davmail

It works really well if you are comfortable on the command line to get it running.

• Thunderbird-AppImage

  2 22 3.8 Shell

  unofficial AppImages for Mozilla Thunderbird Mail Client

Bypassing all the arguments about hows and whys...

There is an AppImage. It just works.

https://github.com/srevinsaju/thunderbird-appImage/

Try it.

And yes, IMHO, the Thunderbird organisation should distribute it.

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