Make the appimage able to update itself

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Make the appimage able to update itself #9

Open andy5995 opened 1 year ago

andy5995 commented 1 year ago

This would be nice. I don't know when I'll get to it though. Post on the ticket and let me know if you want to try tackling this issue. I might be able to help.

Making AppImages updateable

andy5995 commented 1 year ago

Probably not worth it because there's so much data that gets changed between releases. Downloading an update would be about the same size as a release.

rautamiekka commented 1 year ago

Let's try it first, please. Surely even a very tight compression (like LZMA2 at Ultra) of the contents will still make the image correctly updateable.

Updater: https://github.com/AppImageCommunity/AppImageUpdate
Documentation for the updater: https://docs.appimage.org/packaging-guide/optional/updates.html

I can only help by trying to run the update as an end user, though.

andy5995 commented 1 year ago

@rautamiekka Thanks for the the feedback. I'll reopen the issue.