On 21/12/11 02:47 PM, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> I think this could be very useful in many places, for instance to ship
> built-in
> css files, gtk builder files, win32 theme images etc in a way that still
> makes libraries
> relocatable (and avoids potential for runtime errors due to not found files).
Maybe we could actually support "bundles" like it is done on MacOS.
The idea of compiling data into a binary file give me a blast from the
past from the MacOS 9 days.
On the other hand having a bundle (a directory) that contains all the
file the application needs, including the DSOs would be convenient.
That could have the following hierarchy
MyApp.app/Content/
elf-x86_64/MyApp
resources/
icon.png
icon2.png
schema.gsettings
dialog.ui
dialog2.ui
fr_FR/
strings.mo
lib/
libgtk-4.0.so
libglib-3.0.so
libfoo.so
Then MyApp.app is the self contained application.
It can contain shared libraries, etc.
But this might need to be specified ouside of glib's scope but with API
in glib/gio to allow it easy use.
And yes this looks a lot like what FoundationKit on MacOS offers.
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