Indeed, it's pretty new AFAIK and I am as surprised Openshot are using it,
last time I checked - a few weeks back - there was no such option on their
download page.
There was an interesting discussion about it on HN a while back
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11187198
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----- Original Message -----> From: "Sorin Srbu" <Sorin.Srbu at orgfarm.uu.se>
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> Sent: Thursday, 7 April, 2016 15:27:55
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Openshot 2.x (beta) on C7??
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>> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at
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>> Behalf Of Lamar Owen
>> Sent: den 7 april 2016 16:21
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>> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Openshot 2.x (beta) on C7??
>>
>> It does take more disk space to do this.
>>
>> And while I have always been a big fan of RPM and of always using the
>> repos for things, I have to say that there are many things RPM packages
>> do not do well for the most part.
>
> Size is not too much of a problem in my book, as long as I don't have
to
> spend hours on end to find out what repos have the proper dep's and
doesn't
> mismatch with each other, in order to install the software I wanted in the
> first place.
>
> An OT sidetrack; has this appimage-thing been going on for some time now?
> Openshot is the first software I've seen that is delivered this way.
>
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