[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Feature request: Please provide an AppImage for Geany (#1303)

[elextr]

@probonopd thank for the polite disagreement and discussion, its sometimes rare.  

I suspect we will have to end up agreeing to disagree.  You are interested in the USER, we are developers and interested in DEVELOPMENT and the experience of running the software and its functionality.  We don't claim to know packaging, nor do we want to do so.  As volunteer developers that is our prerogative.  (That is of course a black and white statement about a group of contributors, and so in reality the lack of interest may vary between individuals and circumstances, but this and other previous discussions have seen most of the main contributors be negative about being involved in packaging.)

But as noted previously we are happy for others with expertise and interest to try to improve the user packaging experience and will assist them with problems they encounter.

Though it is my personal experience that the centralised Linux package experience is far superior to the Windows one of having to find the individual software items site, then download from there with varying levels of quality and support for OS versions.  Duplicating that in Linux is not going to improve the Linux experience, especially with the plethora of releases of a plethora of distros, on which the package may or may not work, but the upstream can't tell since they don't have all versions of all distros to test so the user is left with failing packages on some systems.  But that is of course my own opinion.

PS The "Free Software" movement is a subset and progenitor of the wider "open source" movement, so RMS is not gonna be allowed to dodge responsibility for the whole shebang, as much as he hates it :)

(An aside, the difference mirrors the discussion above, Free Software gives users freedom at the expense of restricting developers freedom, open source gives developers freedom to restrict users freedom.  I can argue the relative merits of these forever, but this isn't the forum for that and @b4n would get grumpy with me :)

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