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azubieta / AppImageInfo

Extracts metadata from a given AppImage.
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Move to the appimage github project #10

Open azubieta opened 5 years ago

azubieta commented 5 years ago

@probonopd I would like you to review the project in order to move it into the AppImage org. @TheAssassin already suggested to rename the lib to libappimageinfo and the cli command to libappimageinfotool. I actually don't think that the "tool" sufix is required.

TheAssassin commented 5 years ago

s/libappimageinfotool/appimageinfotool/, to follow what has become a convention in our project (e.g., appimagetool, appimageupdatetool).

Also, I'd rename the project to AppImageInfo.

probonopd commented 5 years ago

As per our naming policy

This mirrors the Mac policy.

But I am not sure this should be a part of the AppImage project at the moment. The AppImage project does not aim to collect any and every tool that is somehow related to AppImage. We are totally fine with projects like Nitrux, KDE,... to maintain independent code bases that do things with AppImages, without wanting this code in the AppImage project. This is especially true as long as no other code in the AppImage project depends on this.

azubieta commented 5 years ago

Actually, we have plans of making AppImageLauncher use the libappimageinfo code in order to show a bit more of "info" about the AppImage being opened. And this tool aims to be used not only at Nitrux or KDE but also on GNome, XFCE or any other desktop. Also, it could be used in software centers or file managers. But if you are ok with it living in my github page I'm ok with it :)

probonopd commented 5 years ago

Ah, in this case, couldn't we merge it into libappimage?

TheAssassin commented 5 years ago

No. That'd add way too many dependencies to libappimage. We should keep it a separate project.