jofemodo
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2 years ago Hi @guysoft !
Nice to read your lines. Also in the forum but i couldn't answer yet.
Currently we are quite busy with hardware & software development, but we are not generating nightly images because this was causing too many issues/confusions and little benefit, so currently we only generate an image when needed. FYI, I've implemented an "image updater" that updates the last stable image instead of building it from scratch. This has reduced the time needed for stabilizing an "update release".
Let me think about your proposal about the rpi-imager, but i would need some time because my head is too busy with development.
My very first thoughts about it:
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Getting a stable (or simply usable!) zynthianOS image from scratch is not easy and it takes some time. In the other hand, if you update an stable zynthianOS image, it's a lot easier to get a workable image.
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Also, our official images include a huge collection of SoundFonts, what is very convenient for most of people, but that increase "a bit" the image size (~8GB after compression). Releasing images without the soundfont collection would increase user confusion, and we would be answering questions about this, etc.
Regarding your request of "opening the issue tracker", i just did it ;-)
Best Regards,
guysoft
Hey, I want to know what the current status of the project? I think of putting an OS request for rpi-imager. And also adding it to my community maintained fork at: https://github.com/guysoft/pi-imager. That way you could in one click download and flash the latest image or nightly. @jofemodo your thoughts?
Also, can you open the issue tracker on https://github.com/zynthian/ZynthianOS so we can open issues there?
Thanks!