Re: XDG-APP and D

2016-04-23 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 23 April 2016 at 15:13:15 UTC, Anonymouse wrote: But that's more or less what he's saying though, if you read his original blog post. Just to add further: while I have a lot of doubts about the motives behind the original blogpost (which I feel misleads by omission on several

Re: XDG-APP and D

2016-04-23 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 23 April 2016 at 15:13:15 UTC, Anonymouse wrote: But that's more or less what he's saying though, if you read his original blog post. His gripe isn't that it's defect security-wise, but rather that it's being marketed as capital-s Safe. Except that his original blogpost is just

Re: XDG-APP and D

2016-04-23 Thread Anonymouse via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 23 April 2016 at 13:56:45 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: On Saturday, 23 April 2016 at 11:29:29 UTC, NX wrote: I will just leave it here: http://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-expert-matthew-garrett-ubuntu-16-04s-new-snap-format-is-a-security-risk/ This is FUD. There are no

Re: XDG-APP and D

2016-04-23 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 23 April 2016 at 11:29:29 UTC, NX wrote: I will just leave it here: http://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-expert-matthew-garrett-ubuntu-16-04s-new-snap-format-is-a-security-risk/ This is FUD. There are no security risks with snappy packages that there aren't with any other

Re: XDG-APP and D

2016-04-23 Thread NX via Digitalmars-d-announce
I will just leave it here: http://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-expert-matthew-garrett-ubuntu-16-04s-new-snap-format-is-a-security-risk/

Re: XDG-APP and D

2016-04-22 Thread John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 21 April 2016 at 18:55:23 UTC, Gerald wrote: For those not familiar, xdg-app is a Linux virtualization system targeted at desktop apps, it's been under pretty heavy development and is available for use in Gnome 3.20. Mathias Clausen recently wrote a blog entry about creating his

Re: XDG-APP and D

2016-04-22 Thread Anonymouse via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 22 April 2016 at 10:24:08 UTC, Dicebot wrote: On 04/21/2016 11:30 PM, Karabuta wrote: This whole sandbox apps seem interesting. Canonical also talking about snaps :) Meh, I can see why this concept is tempting for desktop systems but it makes me feel that 5 years from now I'll

Re: XDG-APP and D

2016-04-22 Thread Dicebot via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 04/21/2016 11:30 PM, Karabuta wrote: > This whole sandbox apps seem interesting. Canonical also talking about > snaps :) Meh, I can see why this concept is tempting for desktop systems but it makes me feel that 5 years from now I'll have to build my own Linux-From-Scratch distro to preserve

Re: XDG-APP and D

2016-04-22 Thread FreeSlave via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 21 April 2016 at 18:55:23 UTC, Gerald wrote: For those not familiar, xdg-app is a Linux virtualization system targeted at desktop apps, it's been under pretty heavy development and is available for use in Gnome 3.20. Mathias Clausen recently wrote a blog entry about creating his

Re: XDG-APP and D

2016-04-21 Thread Karabuta via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 21 April 2016 at 18:55:23 UTC, Gerald wrote: For those not familiar, xdg-app is a Linux virtualization system targeted at desktop apps, it's been under pretty heavy development and is available for use in Gnome 3.20. Mathias Clausen recently wrote a blog entry about creating his

XDG-APP and D

2016-04-21 Thread Gerald via Digitalmars-d-announce
For those not familiar, xdg-app is a Linux virtualization system targeted at desktop apps, it's been under pretty heavy development and is available for use in Gnome 3.20. Mathias Clausen recently wrote a blog entry about creating his first xdg-app and the application he chose to play with