AppImageCommunity / libappimage

Implements functionality for dealing with AppImage files
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Add small CLI tools performing specific libappimage operations #96

Open TheAssassin opened 5 years ago

TheAssassin commented 5 years ago

Sometimes it might be beneficial to offer interfaces additional to an API. A very simple interface type is CLI. It's used excessively by shells but can be used from almost any programming language; for API usage, one has to use C/C++.

We should consider providing some small wrapper tools that perform specific tasks for use by tools or scripts which can't afford linking to libappimage:

The binaries might be shipped in separate libappimage-bin packages, like most library provided tools are.

darealshinji commented 1 year ago

Here's a small tool that allows to use most of the API from command line: https://gist.github.com/darealshinji/c126c37013b088e7d28e8d5ac7447fb8

Examples: