Hi,
> Am 25.05.2026 um 10:41 schrieb Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]>:
>
> 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.
I mentioned AppImages because those are a recognized way to distribute apps für
Linux (and BSD? I don’t know). Yeah, they somewhat reinvented the wheel after
OpenSteps app bundle, but they still seem to be the way commonly used. Please
correct me if I am wrong.
Despite all this I am off course open to other but similar easy ways to
distribute (binary) apps to users.
>
> -R
kind regards,
Lars
