Status

Currently, this project is still very immature and some details are undecided yet about this project. The currently planned and implemented parts of this project are:

• @reforged/maker-appimage – a simple, asynchronous AppImage maker. Basically reimplementation of appimagetool in TypeScript, but using system-wide mksquashfs and written natively for Forge API. Has potential for packaging AppImage-alternative formats as well (right now, custom runtimes are supported only).

  • Emit / show current task and its progress ^[1].
  • Support passing and generating update information to AppImages (zsync).
  • Support checksum embedding into AppImage runtime.
  • Support AppImage signing (gpg).

• @reforged/plugin-launcher - adds executable to the app directory to be launched instead of binary, for additional features not yet possible to be achieved within Electron app directly.

• @reforged/maker-alpm – maker for Arch Linux pacman packages. Ideally, it should directly generate a tarball with necessary metadata while supporting most features like package signing.

License

For information on which software licenses may the ReForged project be distributed, see COPYING file.

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1. Partially implemented; no official Forge API for representation yet. ↩︎