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Hi @andrsd and @janrysavy

Any plans to release binary?

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michal-ruzicka

michal-ruzicka commented on Dec 8, 2023

@michal-ruzicka

I am very interested, too: Is there any plan for development and releases, or was the source code just made open source by the original authors who do not have development capacities? Is it up to the community to cope with that somehow?

andrsd

andrsd commented on Dec 8, 2023

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I was able to successfully build the Salamander binary using a github workflow. The changes are sitting in my fork. I know that @janrysavy is planning on using my work for testing purposes.

This work can also be used for creating a final release that would be available to users for downloading. IDK what is the plan here, but it would make sense to me to use the github release capability exactly for such a purpose.

shakeyourbunny

shakeyourbunny commented on Dec 8, 2023

@shakeyourbunny

It would also really be neat, if native Linux binaries would be provided; at least in an AppImage or something.

janrysavy

janrysavy commented on Dec 8, 2023

@janrysavy
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It would also really be neat, if native Linux binaries would be provided; at least in an AppImage or something.

Salamander is Windows only application.

janrysavy

janrysavy commented on Dec 8, 2023

@janrysavy
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I am very interested, too: Is there any plan for development and releases, or was the source code just made open source by the original authors who do not have development capacities? Is it up to the community to cope with that somehow?

Salamander is not our job within Fine, but that doesn't mean that we are no longer interested in it. We use it every day, Unicode or Dark Mode support would be great. We believe that there will be a community around Open Salamander that will be able to develop Salamander further. We will support such initiative in our spare time.

janrysavy

janrysavy commented on Dec 8, 2023

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Please keep this issue on topic.

janrysavy

janrysavy commented on Dec 8, 2023

@janrysavy
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Regarding binary release: do you think that nightly builds without code sign certificate would be enough for now?

manison

manison commented on Dec 8, 2023

@manison

I think nightly builds would be fine for start.

0xeb

0xeb commented on Mar 28, 2024

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It would also really be neat, if native Linux binaries would be provided; at least in an AppImage or something.

We all wish for that. Looking at the code just now, it seems it uses Windows UI APIs a lot. Porting will be a big challenge. One thing we can do is try to see why "Wine" or other emulators crash and make them work with Windows OpenSalamander as a first step.

ags1234

ags1234 commented on Nov 6, 2024

@ags1234

I am happy to see this project was open sourced.
Now all it needs is to pick up some traction.
Please provide portable, binary builds so we can test it.

costincca

costincca commented on Feb 15, 2025

@costincca

Is there any news about installable x64 executable?

melloware

melloware commented on Feb 16, 2025

@melloware

@lejcik offers some binaries on his fork: #61

OFreddy

OFreddy commented on Feb 16, 2025

@OFreddy

You could try my fork.
https://github.com/OFreddy/salamander
Binaries are created by action.

melloware

melloware commented on Feb 16, 2025

@melloware

@OFreddy this is great can you donate this PR so this project gets automated builds in the Release section?

OFreddy

OFreddy commented on Feb 16, 2025

@OFreddy

@melloware I have created a PR. But I think this repository is no longer maintained by the creators. The last PR was accepted in spring '24...
We will see

melloware

melloware commented on Feb 16, 2025

@melloware

I really wish the creators would turn this over to the community and let this project move forward. To many people are creating forks and not donating PR's because they see no activity.

melloware

melloware commented on Feb 16, 2025

@melloware

Or we have to go the drastic route and just fork this project and start maintaining it in a different repo that the users control...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar

When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor.

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