xonsh AppImage is broken after Jun changes

[anki-code]

Hi @niess!

We've noticed that xonsh.AppImage 0.12.4 (May 9) is working but starting from xonsh release 0.12.5 (Jun 17) it's not working. Example:

cd /tmp
wget https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/releases/download/0.13.3/xonsh-x86_64.AppImage
chmod +x xonsh-x86_64.AppImage
./xonsh-x86_64.AppImage --no-rc
# Freez OR bash: warning: shell level (1000) too high, resetting to 1

I think some of python-appimage commits in Jun 11-14 is the cause.

Could you please test the python-appimage with xonsh and give us the advice? The building process is:

mkdir -p /tmp/build && cd /tmp/build
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh
cd xonsh/appimage
echo 'xonsh' > requirements.txt
cat pre-requirements.txt >> requirements.txt  # here you can add your additional PyPi packages to pack them into AppImage
cd ..
pip install git+https://github.com/niess/python-appimage
python -m python_appimage build app --python-version 3.10 ./appimage
./xonsh-x86_64.AppImage

Thanks!

[anki-code]

I'm going to close this because the manual building is working. It's strange.

[niess]

Hey @anki-code,

Sorry for the issue. I Indeed did some updates lately. Unfortunately, it is complicated for me to test all application cases when I do so. But, I understand that your issue has been solved finally. Fortunately :)

Tracing back the reason for such issues might be complicated since there is no history of the Python AppImages themselves. Furthermore, PyPA might also update the base Manylinux Docker container ... which might also impact the Python AppImage.

[anki-code]

Yep! The issue was around the python-appimage version on the host for release xonsh. Now it's solved.

Yeah, because of continuous release and platform dependent things there are many ways to catch the issue )

Thank you for continuous support of python-appimage! You rock!