shall we have the AppImage release format ?

[jackywu]

hello, plrigaux, I tried to build the source on my Kubuntu 25.04 with cargo cargo 1.88.0 (873a06493 2025-05-10), but failed with these errors

  Compiling strsim v0.11.1
   Compiling quick-xml v0.37.5
   Compiling parking_lot v0.12.4
   Compiling clap_lex v0.7.5
   Compiling unicode-xid v0.2.6
   Compiling regex-automata v0.4.9
   Compiling foreign-types-shared v0.3.1
   Compiling const_format_proc_macros v0.2.34
   Compiling clap_builder v4.5.40
   Compiling blocking v1.6.1
   Compiling gettext-sys v0.22.5
   Compiling async-executor v1.13.2
   Compiling async-broadcast v0.7.2
   Compiling cstr-argument v0.1.2
   Compiling sysd-manager v1.30.9 (/home/jacky/Code/sysd-manager)
   Compiling ordered-stream v0.2.0
   Compiling utf8-cstr v0.1.6
   Compiling hex v0.4.3
   Compiling iana-time-zone v0.1.63
   Compiling jiff v0.2.15
   Compiling futures-sink v0.3.31
   Compiling chrono v0.4.41
   Compiling const_format v0.2.34
   Compiling dotenv v0.15.0
   Compiling formatx v0.2.4
warning: sysd-manager@1.30.9: Those languages ["zh_Hans"] not in LINGUAS file!
error: failed to run custom build command for `sysd-manager v1.30.9 (/home/jacky/Code/sysd-manager)`

Caused by:
  process didn't exit successfully: `/home/jacky/Code/sysd-manager/target/release/build/sysd-manager-f555dd46339eb94f/build-script-build` (exit status: 101)
  --- stdout
  The current directory is /home/jacky/Code/sysd-manager
  CMD Output: Output {
      status: ExitStatus(
          unix_wait_status(
              0,
          ),
      ),
      stdout: "",
      stderr: "",
  }
  cargo::rerun-if-changed=data/resources/resources.gresource.xml
  cargo::rerun-if-changed=data/styles/style.css
  cargo::rerun-if-changed=data/icons/scalable/actions/empty-trash-bin-symbolic.svg
  cargo::rerun-if-changed=data/interfaces/unit_file_panel.ui
  cargo::rerun-if-changed=data/interfaces/unit_list_panel.ui
  cargo::rerun-if-changed=data/interfaces/preferences.ui
  cargo::rerun-if-changed=data/interfaces/kill_panel.ui

after add zh_Hans to LINGUAS file, the error still there.

as I know, Flatpak is not very popular, but AppImage is more popular, should we have a AppImage release ?

thanks.

[plrigaux]

Hi Jackie,

Adding the zh_hans won't do much about this error, this is just a warning. This is build.rs script to generate files. It s possible that you don't have the program msgfmt from the gettext suite to generate mo files. Sorry I can't check deeper since I'm on vacation and have no access to my computer.

Also, You can comment the code in build.rs related to translation to make the compilation pass through.

I thought to make an App image, but didn't get the time. It will come one day.

Sincerely