Make a SystemImageKit ExtensionImage

[probonopd]

It would be useful for testing if we had a SystemImageKit ExtensionImage, similar to https://github.com/probonopd/SystemImageKit/blob/master/boot/bin/generate-appimaged-extension

[TheAssassin]

This is nothing AppImageLauncher as a project has to do, but SystemImageKit.

[probonopd]

Yes, I'd welcome a PR to SystemImageKit.

[TheAssassin]

Then maybe open an issue there and ask your contributors?

Not an AIL issue. Closing as wontfix.

[probonopd]

Opened an issue there. My line of thinking is: If AppImageLauncher is intended to eventually become a replacement of appimaged, it must do what appimaged does today, including how other projects like SystemImageKit use it. Unless it does that, it cannot be a replacement for me. (In general: if someone intends to replace my software $FOO with software $BAR, that someone should make sure that $BAR at least does what $FOO does, ideally as a drop-in replacement that does not require one to make changes in usage patterns. Same goes for linuxdeployqt and all the other stuff.) Otherwise it just creates work for me which I do not have time for.

[TheAssassin]

You're not the center of the Linux world, though. AppImageLauncher works great as it is, can be installed and used nearly everywhere, nobody but you really uses SystemImageKit at all so I don't see why I or anyone else should even think about investing time to ship it there. That's not my problem. You always mention your lack of time, but please understand that I and many others also don't have time. Asking us to worry about your personal third-party projects none of us uses because you don't get to fixing them is pretty outrageous IMO.

This is by the way not a replacement of appimaged, it's an alternative. I keep explaining that. It's got its own unique UX elements and it's possible to make this software work for your needs, too. But it won't be a replacement as in "drop in".