mijorus/gearlever

documentation for devs on adding AppImage update support

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aarron-lee commented

Is there documentation anywhere for devs on adding AppImage update support as described by https://mijorus.it/posts/gearlever/update-url-info/

mijorus commented

Is there documentation anywhere for devs on adding AppImage update support as described by https://mijorus.it/posts/gearlever/update-url-info/

Gear Lever reads update information directly from the embedded data, as specified in the App image standard.

https://docs.appimage.org/packaging-guide/optional/updates.html

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aarron-lee commented

thank you, I didn't know that the AppImage standard had a specification for updates. I had assumed the gear lever implementation was a bespoke implementation.