Has anyone looked into shipping a linux equivalent to a DMG image for GNUstep applications?
On Mon, 25 May 2026 at 18:42, Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > [email protected] via Discussion list for the GNUstep > programming environment wrote: > > I think, GNUstep needs lower hurdles for entering our ecosystem and so I > had the thought „What if we distribute the GNUstep dev tools as AppImage?“, > e.g. bundling everything needed (basic GNUstep installation; compiler, > linker, make; Gorm.app and ProjectCenter.app; some example code) into an > AppImage like PikoPixel did, so that our App can be run everywhere > AppImages are supported. > > > > What do you think about the idea, would it help our cause? > > > > What would be the prerequisites for such an attempt? > > > > How much work would it be? > > > > I don't know about AppImages but GNUstep supports packing everything > into a single directory containing Application, frameworks, themes, > preferences into a single folder. > > It is useful to ship a single application with its environment, I use it > with success on windows and have scripts for that. Very convenient. > Theoretically it can also contain more than one app. > > It is instead not very smart having several directories for each app, > since that way you have multiple runtime installations and running them > in concurrency may cause issues (beyond space waste). I don't know how > AppImages would handle this. > > -R > >
