HI Emmanuele, I would be very interested to hear your further comments on desktop applications not working well with Docker. Can you elaborate on where and why Docker doesn't really work for this?
r- On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 5:07 PM, Emmanuele Bassi <eba...@gmail.com> wrote: > Docker containers do not really work for desktop applications as well > as they work for server applications. > > An attempt at containerisation is Flatpak, which follows the Open > Container Initiative like Docker, but it's aimed at desktop > applications. > > Ciao, > Emmanuele. > > On 11 February 2017 at 19:17, richard boaz <ivor.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > > not a GTK-based solution, but are you familiar with Docker? it solves > these > > problems for you and more. > > > > you will never worry about having to satisfy run-time dependencies on the > > target platform ever again. well, everything except needing a docker > > engine, that is. > > > > richard > > > > On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 1:22 PM, Ian Chapman <ichap...@videotron.ca> > wrote: > >> > >> Gtk3 portability > >> > >> Hi, I have made a Linux gtk3 program and have it running on my Debian > Mint > >> AMD64 machine. > >> > >> I mistakenly thought that the program file (binary file) held all that > was > >> needed to run. > >> > >> I moved the program file to a newly installed Mint 18.1 and ran into a > few > >> difficulties. > >> > >> 1. I had to install libsdl2 to get over the first hick. > >> > >> 2. My program was looking for libglew.so.1.10 but what was in the > >> repository was 1.13 obviously a slightly later version. > >> > >> 3. I overcame hick 2 by pulling over C++ and gtk3 and recompiling from > >> source. > >> > >> Maybe you guys and gals can give me a few pointers so that I can > generate > >> the program file (binary file) without all the above hassle? Regards > Ian. > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> gtk-list mailing list > >> gtk-list@gnome.org > >> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gtk-list mailing list > > gtk-list@gnome.org > > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list > > > > > > -- > https://www.bassi.io > [@] ebassi [@gmail.com] >
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