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AppImage / appimagetool

A low-level tool to generate an AppImage from an existing AppDir
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Call `mksquashfs` with `-comp zstd` by default #23

Closed TheAssassin closed 12 months ago

TheAssassin commented 12 months ago

Currently, when --comp is not passed to appimagetool, we call mksquashfs without its -comp parameter, falling back to mksquashfs's default compression (which is configured at its build time). We also show a warning that we fall back to the default. This is for users of the tool which do not use the officially provided AppImages, but build their own version (using custom builds of mksquashfs etc., too).

This is not a great UX. To improve the situation, we decided to just pass -comp zstd if --comp is not provided, making mksquashfs either use it as intended, or print a meaningful error message that this compression is not available. Users who need to use a build of mksquashfs that does not support -comp zstd can then fix the situation either by providing a proper build of this tool or manually passing the name of an alternative compression algorithm like xz (our old default).

TheAssassin commented 12 months ago

Accidentally pushed https://github.com/AppImage/appimagetool/commit/810916a858d5d23a03764daf872fc60538813069 directly to master, which implements this change. Please feel free to do a post-merge review. Sorry.