On 22/12/11 12:04 AM, Alexander Larsson wrote: > On Wed, 2011-12-21 at 15:07 -0800, Hub Figuière wrote: >> 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. > > See: > http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2011/09/30/rethinking-the-linux-distibution/
I had read that one back when you posted it, and I got lost at "mount namespace" and "fuse filesystem". The use case described is pretty much what I am thinking, but with a way simpler design: all about making things relocatable. A portable "prefix" if you want. Hub _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
