I think Ori was paying more attention than either of us, to be honest.
- Willow
On 12/06/2025 21:10, ron minnich wrote:
sorry, my bad.
On Thu, Jun 12, 2025 at 12:37 PM Willow Liquorice <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I believe the conversation was talking about creating a "demo VM" for
Linux using an AppImage, rather than porting the format to Plan 9.
- Willow
On 12/06/2025 18:58, Ron Minnich wrote:
> I don't see the value of appimage in a statically linked binary world
> that we have in Plan 9. What would it add?
>
> Flatpack and Snap and friends, I'm not sure either. To run a program
> on plan 9, you construct a namespace and run it, with resources local
> and remote. Sounds like an rc script to me.
>
> On Mon, Jun 9, 2025 at 12:40 PM Jeremy Jackins
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>> Flatpack and Snap would give a portable repository experience (i.e.
>> with updates). However I think many find the "download and click to
>> launch" experience of AppImage to be nice.
>>
>> Offering an AppImage for download seems like slightly lower
maintainer burden.
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 3, 2025 at 5:19 AM David Arnold <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> I’m not sure on the latest status, but a Flatpak, Snap, or
AppImage could deliver a similar “just one file” experience for
Linux users.
>>>
>>> I *think* AppImage is the most portable but I’m not sure that’s
still accurate.
>>>
>>> Has anyone tried to build any of these?
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