This allows us to use the base URL as specified in ClientInfo for
requests made to Twitch.
Previously, we'd hardcode "www.twitch.tv" as the base URL to make
channel-related requests, but because we're currently spoofing the
mobile client, that would always cause a HTTP redirect to m.twitch.tv.
This change avoids that HTTP redirect, and potentially saves a whopping
150 ms (or more 😱) when making channel-related requests.
Co-authored-by: DevilXD <4180725+DevilXD@users.noreply.github.com>
Ubuntu 20.04 only has Python 3.8, and because the 'truststore'
dependency requires at least Python 3.10, the AppImage package would
need to bundle CA certificates from 'certifi' to make HTTPS requests
work at all, which is quite an ugly workaround.
Unfortunately, as a side effect, building on Ubuntu 22.04 increases the
minimum required version of glibc from 2.31 to 2.35.
Excluding these Linux libraries doesn't seem to cause any side-effects
at runtime (they're also not present in the AppImage).
And the benefit of this, is a reduction of 15 MiB in the final size of
the Linux binary, which should also slightly reduce the app's startup
time (but don't quote me on that). :)
AppImage is a more flexible packaging solution for Linux than what
PyInstaller currently offers.
Some of the benefits are:
- Ability to ship the app with predefined environment variables
(solving issues like #321)
- Improved integration with the desktop environment (if you're using
go-appimage[1] or libappimage[2])
- Much lighter in size (~27 MB difference)
To actually make the AppImage, I'm using appimage-builder[3], which
makes the process a bit easier.
For more details about the AppImage technology, check out their
website[4].
[1] https://github.com/probonopd/go-appimage
[2] https://github.com/AppImageCommunity/libappimage
[3] https://appimage-builder.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
[4] https://appimage.org/
