Lamenting What AppImage Could Have Been

• zap

  17 484 4.1 Go

  :zap: Delightful AppImage package manager (by srevinsaju)

On the run, but I assume you've seen this: https://zap.srev.in/ / https://github.com/srevinsaju/zap

• score

  99 1,422 9.6 C++

  ossia score, an interactive sequencer for the intermedia arts

  

To me as a dev it definitely does, I build my app once and it works on most distros (https://ossia.io)

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• nativefier-appimage

  1 13 0.0 Shell

  A tool to generate an AppImage of a website using Nativefier.

  

Nitrux is starting to make an OS ecosystem around Appimages. There have been some interesting projects like nativefier.

• arch2appimage

  10 342 6.4 Python

  Discontinued This is a python script that downloads Arch Linux packages (Official/Chaotic AUR) and converts to an AppImage executable

If you are in Arch, arch2appimage can easily make packages from Chaotic AUR.

• qt-5.15-centos7.0-deps

  1 0 10.0 Shell

  Scripts to download and unpack CentOS 7.6 libs that Qt 5.15 builds need, so Qt applications can run on Centos 7.0

Considering someone has packaged QT 5.15 for centos, and all appimage does is overlay the filesystem, I'm not doing to believe you on this.

• toolbox

  109 2,273 9.1 Shell

  Tool for interactive command line environments on Linux (by containers)

  

• toolbox

  1 0 10.0 Go

  Tool for containerized command line environments on Linux (by akdev1l)

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  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.

  

• etbox

  1 2 10.0 Shell

  ephemeral toolbox

• distrobox

  402 8,927 9.6 Shell

  Use any linux distribution inside your terminal. Enable both backward and forward compatibility with software and freedom to use whatever distribution you’re more comfortable with. Mirror available at: https://gitlab.com/89luca89/distrobox

• Chocolatey

  394 9,866 8.4 C#

  Chocolatey - the package manager for Windows

  

As for why MS never did something like this up until recently (Windows Store) it's anyone's guess... Nevertheless, this hasn't stopped third-parties from doing something along the lines of what I've described above.

• AppImageUpdate

  21 544 4.6 C++

  AppImageUpdate lets you update AppImages in a decentral way using information embedded in the AppImage itself.

  

AppImages can contain update information (and even support partial updates using zsync), check out https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageUpdate.

• static-tools

  1 24 1.5 C

  Building static binaries of some tools using an Alpine chroot with musl

It's been done: https://github.com/probonopd/static-tools

• platformissues

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