Re: Batis - XDG-based packaging for Linux desktop apps

2015-11-21 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Sat, 2015-11-21 at 23:34 +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote: > On 20 November 2015 at 22:01, Jasper St. Pierre t> wrote: > > Currently, the security model of Linux systems is "distro verifies > > security and adds to their own repo", with, of course, the step of > > "user trusts distro". > > > > The

Re: Batis - XDG-based packaging for Linux desktop apps

2015-11-21 Thread Thomas Kluyver
Hi Matthias, Thanks for your thoughtful reply. On Sat, Nov 21, 2015, at 09:02 PM, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > I suppose you have looked at existing solutions to the problem, like > 0install, Limba and XdgApp. What is the thing which makes your project > special compared to those (there must be some

Re: Batis - XDG-based packaging for Linux desktop apps

2015-11-21 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 20 November 2015 at 22:01, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: > Currently, the security model of Linux systems is "distro verifies > security and adds to their own repo", with, of course, the step of > "user trusts distro". > > The security model of Batis seems to be "user trusts application developer" >

Re: Batis - XDG-based packaging for Linux desktop apps

2015-11-21 Thread Matthias Klumpp
2015-11-21 18:14 GMT+01:00 Thomas Kluyver : > On Sat, Nov 21, 2015, at 03:58 PM, Shaun McCance wrote: >> I think you're confusing understanding how a system works underneath >> with understanding how to use it. GitHub is a testament to the massive >> number of people who use git. A very small handf

Re: Batis - XDG-based packaging for Linux desktop apps

2015-11-21 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On Sat, Nov 21, 2015, at 03:58 PM, Shaun McCance wrote: > I think you're confusing understanding how a system works underneath > with understanding how to use it. GitHub is a testament to the massive > number of people who use git. A very small handful of those people > really truly grok how git wo

Re: Batis - XDG-based packaging for Linux desktop apps

2015-11-21 Thread Shaun McCance
On Fri, 2015-11-20 at 20:54 +, Thomas Kluyver wrote: > On Fri, Nov 20, 2015, at 08:09 PM, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: > > I'm worried. We have xdg-app, we have batis, and I learned that the > > KDE people are working on their own thing as well. > > I haven't heard about the KDE project in this sp