Re: [gobolinux-devel] The 3 Linux app bundle formats

2019-07-26 Thread Lucas C. Villa Real
On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 2:46 PM Liam Proven wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jul 2019 at 19:23, Lucas C. Villa Real > wrote: > >> > >> Good to know. Is the daemon there? > > > > There's no need for a daemon. AppImages are ELF executables with a > self-extracting filesystem image that contains the application

Re: [gobolinux-devel] The 3 Linux app bundle formats

2019-07-26 Thread Liam Proven
On Fri, 26 Jul 2019 at 19:23, Lucas C. Villa Real wrote: >> >> Good to know. Is the daemon there? > > There's no need for a daemon. AppImages are ELF executables with a > self-extracting filesystem image that contains the application and its > dependencies. They should work on any distribution.

Re: [gobolinux-devel] The 3 Linux app bundle formats

2019-07-26 Thread Lucas C. Villa Real
On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 1:24 PM Liam Proven wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jul 2019 at 17:31, Lucas C. Villa Real > wrote: > > > > AppImages already work fine on Gobo -- there are no special dependencies > to be installed. > > Good to know. Is the daemon there? > There's no need for a daemon. AppImages ar

Re: [gobolinux-devel] The 3 Linux app bundle formats

2019-07-26 Thread Liam Proven
On Fri, 26 Jul 2019 at 17:31, Lucas C. Villa Real wrote: > > AppImages already work fine on Gobo -- there are no special dependencies to > be installed. Good to know. Is the daemon there? > I've got Flatpak to work too, but with limited functionality (i.e., removing > support for SELinux and o

Re: [gobolinux-devel] The 3 Linux app bundle formats

2019-07-26 Thread Lucas C. Villa Real
AppImages already work fine on Gobo -- there are no special dependencies to be installed. I've got Flatpak to work too, but with limited functionality (i.e., removing support for SELinux and other stuff), but AppImages are by far much easier to manage and store. Lucas On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 7:0

Re: [gobolinux-devel] The 3 Linux app bundle formats

2019-07-26 Thread Liam Proven
On Fri, 26 Jul 2019 at 07:51, Anshuman Aggarwal wrote: > > However till our recipes catch up, supporting a package format may be > interesting but will create a laziness deterrent to work on creating recipes. My thought was simply this: Such packages are ideal for isolated, standalone apps, or

Re: [gobolinux-devel] The 3 Linux app bundle formats

2019-07-25 Thread Anshuman Aggarwal
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 re

[gobolinux-devel] The 3 Linux app bundle formats

2019-07-25 Thread Liam Proven
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-