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 cou

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 s

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 se

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 existing

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 Gerald via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 22 April 2016 at 12:07:36 UTC, Dicebot wrote: So in the end each app will bundle all its dependency and just work no matter what the host is. Which is cool. But it will also bundle all its dependencies and you'd better accept size of your total system installation (and its RAM consum

Re: XDG-APP and D

2016-04-22 Thread Dicebot via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 04/22/2016 02:57 PM, John Colvin wrote: > 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 C

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 have

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 kin

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 was