Re: [fpc-pascal] AppImage
Am 16.01.2018 00:50 schrieb "Graeme Geldenhuys" < mailingli...@geldenhuys.co.uk>: On 2018-01-15 20:54, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > It's nothing but a zip with the needed dependencies. > More precisely, they use a standard ISO image that gets loop mounted. Simply rename any *.AppImage application with a .iso extension and you can examine the directory structure and content. This is nothing new really. Linux has had many such attempts over the years. Anybody remember AutoPackage, Zero Install and others? I think Snappy from Canonical was the last attempt at this. None of them took hold in the community at large. I don't really know why - I have always thought "app bundles" was a good idea. Maybe 10th time lucky - after all, this is the year of Linux. ;-) Maybe because each app will have its own dependencies, thus duplicating code. Also if you have different versions of dependencies they might access shared global configuration in incompatible ways. Not to mention that if there is a (security) bug in one dependency you need to update all apps containing the bugged library instead of merely the library (that is if you can easily find out that an app contains that library). So, yeah, I'm definitely skeptical about such approaches. Regards, Sven ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
Re: [fpc-pascal] AppImage
On 2018-01-15 20:54, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: It's nothing but a zip with the needed dependencies. More precisely, they use a standard ISO image that gets loop mounted. Simply rename any *.AppImage application with a .iso extension and you can examine the directory structure and content. This is nothing new really. Linux has had many such attempts over the years. Anybody remember AutoPackage, Zero Install and others? I think Snappy from Canonical was the last attempt at this. None of them took hold in the community at large. I don't really know why - I have always thought "app bundles" was a good idea. Maybe 10th time lucky - after all, this is the year of Linux. ;-) I suspect the idea is taken from MacOS, where apps are bundled in a similar way. Yeah, it looks or sounds similar, but like I said, this was done a few times before on Linux already. Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
Re: [fpc-pascal] AppImage
> Take a look at > > https://appimage.org/ > > Is this possible for Freepascal and Lazarus? Though I'm not able to help you, it seems to be similar to https://www.docker.com/. Though docker apps can run on other platforms like windows and mac as well. Rgds, Darius___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
Re: [fpc-pascal] AppImage
On Mon, 15 Jan 2018, Rainer Stratmann wrote: Take a look at https://appimage.org/ Is this possible for Freepascal and Lazarus? Yes, of course. It's even quite easy for vanilla FPC apps. It's nothing but a zip with the needed dependencies. A vanilla FPC app doesn't need any libraries (unless you link them in). I imagine that for Lazarus it's also quite easy, since the needed libs are known. I suspect the idea is taken from MacOS, where apps are bundled in a similar way. Michael. ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
[fpc-pascal] AppImage
Take a look at https://appimage.org/ Is this possible for Freepascal and Lazarus? ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
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