Gobo already solves the multiple dependency problem using Runner in a more memory, space and network efficient way.
However till our recipes catch up, supporting a package format may be interesting but will create a laziness deterrent to work on creating recipes. If we could convert these into recipes that would be great but probably not possible. On Thu, Jul 25, 2019, 22:53 Liam Proven <lpro...@gmail.com> wrote: > Over i Ubuntu and Fedora land, this is big news. > > Red Hat has an app-bundle format. It's part of GNOME. It's called Flatpak. > > Ubuntu has one too. It's called Snappy. > > While reading about Haiku, I found some interesting blog posts > relevant to this recently... > > > https://medium.com/@probonopd/one-more-thing-haiku-application-bundles-1803a11f9748 > > The developer of AppImage chimes in on Flatpak and Snappy. (He's not > impressed.) > > App bundles are putting a whole app and all its dependencies into one > file, or what looks like 1 file. > > It makes me wonder if Gobo could adopt 1 or more of these existing > solutions > -- AppImage, Flatpak and/or Snappy -- it would suddenly have a wealth of > ready-made apps available for it. > > He points out some of the advantages here: > > https://medium.com/@probonopd/historic-software-can-your-package-manager-handle-this-86563a46f8b5 > > I know, inside them are the same old horrid Unix directory tree. But > outside them that doesn't matter. > > It would make maintaining Gobo a much smaller, simpler project. > > Just a thought... > > -- > Liam Proven - Profile: https://about.me/liamproven > Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk - Google Mail/Hangouts/Plus: lpro...@gmail.com > Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven - Skype/LinkedIn: liamproven > UK: +44 7939-087884 - ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053 > _______________________________________________ > gobolinux-devel mailing list > gobolinux-devel@lists.gobolinux.org > http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel >
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