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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0004814 | FreeCAD | Feature | public | 2021-12-26 13:08 | 2022-01-24 18:46 |
| Reporter | mcgiwer | Assigned To | Kunda1 | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | feature | Reproducibility | N/A |
| Status | closed | Resolution | suspended | ||
| Platform | amd64 | OS | Debian | OS Version | 10+ |
| Product Version | 0.20 | ||||
| Summary | 0004814: Removal of duplicates of system files and folders from the FreeCAD AppImage | ||||
| Description | I would like to propose to remove the folders and files that got duplicated from the system into the FreeCAD's AppImage. Applying of this proposal would have following adventages for the users:
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| Steps To Reproduce | n/a | ||||
| Additional Information | OS: Debian 10 with plan to update Perl: 3.9 | ||||
| Tags | #tobeclosed | ||||
| FreeCAD Information | Version: 0.19.3 Re-downloaded: 26 Dec 2021 | ||||
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@mcgiwer : the purpose of an AppImage is to embed all needed dependencies so it can lone run on any platform. Your proposal makes no sense as it would remove interest in AppImage. :/ |
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@openBrain: I think that in the good solution for this issue would be to allow FreeCAD to use the system files instead of implementing the similiar files into AppImage, because it may cause in the futture versions additional issues and work for the developer team (my proposal is directed to avoid it from happening bacause I know that the dev team is already busy enough without that). If an AppImage itself is the reason of this and/or similiar issues then I would propose to consider distributing FreeCAD in other form (like for example compressed archives, with has also additional adventage). |
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@mcgiwer : FreeCAD is already distributed as many different packages (official repos, PPA, snap, AppImage, sources, ...). Saying "compressed archives" has no sense without telling what is inside. Are you aware that an application shall be specifically compiled against the libraries that it will then run beside ? |
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@openBrain:
Actually, not exactly. On the main website there are very limited choices (for example, for Linux systems are only AppImage avaliable)
I think that it's obvious that the archive would contain the FreeCAD application itself (the content of the "usr" directory after extracting the AppImage, of corse, except the duplicated system files). Maybe there should be a function in the startup script that would ensure that the needeed packages become downloaded and installed (in case they don't exist) before the FreeCAD would start ? Additionally, some files are unessecary split into so many folders and this can cause some confusion as well (that why I had proposed to make the folder structure more simple) |
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@mcgiwerActually, not exactly. On the main website there are very limited choices (for example, for Linux systems are only AppImage avaliable)Maybe you're too lazy to read the text below the download link :/ I think that it's obvious that the archive would contain the FreeCAD application itself (the content of the "usr" directory after extracting the AppImage, of corse, except the duplicated system files).No sense to talk about "duplicated system files". AppImage runs over all Linux platforms. No one is similar to another. As I said, it's purpose of it to come with all dependencies. Maybe there should be a function in the startup script that would ensure that the needeed packages become downloaded and installed (in case they don't exist) before the FreeCAD would start ?This just doesn't look serious regarding system maintenance... |
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@openBrain: I'm trying to help to find a good way to get FreeCAD become even better. Please see the Download page at FreeCAD website first to see what options are avaliable for most users. Besides of that, Wiki does not describe all options of getting it. For example, there is no link for downloading of FreeCAD in a form of you compressed archive (what you had listed as one of possibilities). By the way, I haven't ever wrote that there is no possibility to download FreeCAD from a PPA ;-) |
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@mcgiwer I'm trying to help to find a good way to get FreeCAD become even better.Please do so in the forum. That's not purpose of the tracker. ;) |
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@mcgiwer thanks for our intention to improve the AppImage. Please do open a forum thread. The correct place beside the forum is https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD-Bundle Closing this ticket. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2021-12-26 13:08 | mcgiwer | New Issue | |
| 2022-01-03 10:59 | openBrain | Note Added: 0016185 | |
| 2022-01-03 10:59 | openBrain | Tag Attached: #tobeclosed | |
| 2022-01-03 11:33 | mcgiwer | Note Added: 0016188 | |
| 2022-01-03 11:41 | openBrain | Note Added: 0016189 | |
| 2022-01-03 11:51 | mcgiwer | Note Added: 0016190 | |
| 2022-01-03 11:55 | mcgiwer | Note Edited: 0016190 | |
| 2022-01-03 11:56 | mcgiwer | Note Edited: 0016190 | |
| 2022-01-03 11:58 | mcgiwer | Note Edited: 0016190 | |
| 2022-01-03 12:00 | mcgiwer | Note Edited: 0016190 | |
| 2022-01-03 12:01 | mcgiwer | Note Edited: 0016190 | |
| 2022-01-03 13:56 | openBrain | Note Added: 0016191 | |
| 2022-01-03 14:07 | mcgiwer | Note Added: 0016192 | |
| 2022-01-03 14:19 | openBrain | Note Added: 0016193 | |
| 2022-01-24 18:46 | Kunda1 | Assigned To | => Kunda1 |
| 2022-01-24 18:46 | Kunda1 | Status | new => closed |
| 2022-01-24 18:46 | Kunda1 | Resolution | open => suspended |
| 2022-01-24 18:46 | Kunda1 | Note Added: 0016274 |
