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Unrud / video-downloader

Download videos from websites like YouTube and many others (based on yt-dlp)
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Request for packaging as an AppImage #121

Open abhi-deshpande opened 2 years ago

abhi-deshpande commented 2 years ago

video-downloader is extremely useful for media conversions from a lot of websites and download them in a very simplistic way. I would like to thank the developers and contributors for making this great app. This project is available as snap and flatpak, but not as an AppImage. It would be great if it is introduced as an AppImage.

Will it be considered for packaging as an AppImage in future ? It would be really great.

ProfessorCode212 commented 2 years ago

Flatpak is slowly taking over as the accepted default packaging format for Linux. It's supported on most distros. The way I see it is that AppImages lack in-built support for updates and don't really integrate well with the system by default. Apart from our personal preferences, I don't really see any technical merit in asking the developer to maintain another installation method. Is there any benefit to creating an AppImage, though?

abhi-deshpande commented 2 years ago

AppImages have advantages such as they are not required to be installed and can be run from anywhere. This portability makes them easy to handle and use. Many apps ship Flatpaks as well as AppImages as their installation methods. Although I agree with you about the update stuff.

I just proposed this. In the end, it will depend on developer's decision.