Re: [Interest] Interest Digest, Vol 86, Issue 17

2018-11-17 Thread Roland Hughes
Alexander: Having burned multiple days with https://github.com/probonopd/linuxdeployqt I need to warn you, it is only for simple applications which can compile on Ubuntu 14.04 using a dated version of Qt. If you need a current webengine or other current features you will be resoundingly disapp

Re: [Interest] Interest Digest, Vol 86, Issue 17

2018-11-17 Thread Vadim Peretokin
Since switching to AppImage, our Qt application stopped having the majority of Linux distribution-specific deployment images and it's been mostly trouble-free. I can recommend it. It also does not require any kind of an internet connection. On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 3:19 PM Roland Hughes wrote: >

Re: [Interest] Interest Digest, Vol 86, Issue 17

2018-11-17 Thread Jean-Michaƫl Celerier
> This may or may not be an issue for you, but, AppImage is something of an inverted philosophy. It's not "one Deb to rule them all" which is how things were done in the past. Each AppImage is built specifically for the target I don't understand, I'm using AppImage for my software ( https://github

Re: [Interest] Interest Digest, Vol 86, Issue 17

2018-11-18 Thread Roland Hughes
In the past, when one built a multi-arch Deb it contained everything needed to run on both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms. It was its own little universe. If you did it correctly, it would also cleanly install via alien or other means on RPM based distros. That one file could be walked on disk/thu