Over i Ubuntu and Fedora land, this is big news. Red Hat has an app-bundle format. It's part of GNOME. It's called Flatpak.
Ubuntu has one too. It's called Snappy. While reading about Haiku, I found some interesting blog posts relevant to this recently... https://medium.com/@probonopd/one-more-thing-haiku-application-bundles-1803a11f9748 The developer of AppImage chimes in on Flatpak and Snappy. (He's not impressed.) App bundles are putting a whole app and all its dependencies into one file, or what looks like 1 file. It makes me wonder if Gobo could adopt 1 or more of these existing solutions -- AppImage, Flatpak and/or Snappy -- it would suddenly have a wealth of ready-made apps available for it. He points out some of the advantages here: https://medium.com/@probonopd/historic-software-can-your-package-manager-handle-this-86563a46f8b5 I know, inside them are the same old horrid Unix directory tree. But outside them that doesn't matter. It would make maintaining Gobo a much smaller, simpler project. Just a thought... -- Liam Proven - Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk - Google Mail/Hangouts/Plus: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven - Skype/LinkedIn: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 - ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053 _______________________________________________ gobolinux-devel mailing list gobolinux-devel@lists.gobolinux.org http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel
