From tj.corona at kitware.com Wed Jun 26 11:10:52 2019 From: tj.corona at kitware.com (TJ Corona) Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 11:10:52 -0400 Subject: [Smtk-developers] AppImage Message-ID: Hi all, I just came across AppImage , a many-flavor linux approach to packaging applications. For the brave, it also appears to work on Windows 10 (using their linux subsystem). It?s totally open-source, which is also nice. Could ParaView/ModelBuilder use this for linux deployment? Sincerely, T.J. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ben.boeckel at kitware.com Wed Jun 26 11:28:28 2019 From: ben.boeckel at kitware.com (Ben Boeckel) Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 11:28:28 -0400 Subject: [Smtk-developers] AppImage In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20190626152828.GA14022@rotor.kitware.com> On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 11:10:52 -0400, TJ Corona wrote: > I just came across AppImage , a many-flavor > linux approach to packaging applications. For the brave, it also > appears to work on Windows 10 (using their linux subsystem). It?s > totally open-source, which is also nice. Could ParaView/ModelBuilder > use this for linux deployment? There's also Flatpak which supports (AFAIK) the ability to overlay with other "SDKs", so we can just say "we need Qt" and it would be overlayed before our flatpak. I don't know how this would work with the "bring your own Python" strategy. Here's a comparison article: https://verummeum.com/portable-package-formats/ I don't really care about snap because Canonical doesn't seem interested in making it work outside of Ubuntu. --Ben From tj.corona at kitware.com Wed Jun 26 11:33:14 2019 From: tj.corona at kitware.com (TJ Corona) Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 11:33:14 -0400 Subject: [Smtk-developers] AppImage In-Reply-To: <20190626152828.GA14022@rotor.kitware.com> References: <20190626152828.GA14022@rotor.kitware.com> Message-ID: <6D523E7F-8F21-4549-85B9-5F47062EF157@kitware.com> My linux-fu is limited and (apparently) out of date. Have these package managers gained enough traction to be considered as a deployment strategy? > On Jun 26, 2019, at 11:28 AM, Ben Boeckel wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 11:10:52 -0400, TJ Corona wrote: >> I just came across AppImage , a many-flavor >> linux approach to packaging applications. For the brave, it also >> appears to work on Windows 10 (using their linux subsystem). It?s >> totally open-source, which is also nice. Could ParaView/ModelBuilder >> use this for linux deployment? > > There's also Flatpak which supports (AFAIK) the ability to overlay with > other "SDKs", so we can just say "we need Qt" and it would be overlayed > before our flatpak. I don't know how this would work with the "bring > your own Python" strategy. > > Here's a comparison article: > > https://verummeum.com/portable-package-formats/ > > I don't really care about snap because Canonical doesn't seem interested > in making it work outside of Ubuntu. > > --Ben From ben.boeckel at kitware.com Wed Jun 26 11:32:46 2019 From: ben.boeckel at kitware.com (Ben Boeckel) Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 11:32:46 -0400 Subject: [Smtk-developers] AppImage In-Reply-To: <20190626152828.GA14022@rotor.kitware.com> References: <20190626152828.GA14022@rotor.kitware.com> Message-ID: <20190626153246.GB14022@rotor.kitware.com> On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 11:28:28 -0400, Ben Boeckel wrote: > Here's a comparison article: > > https://verummeum.com/portable-package-formats/ > > I don't really care about snap because Canonical doesn't seem interested > in making it work outside of Ubuntu. Here's a feature matrix (baselined against AppImage): https://askubuntu.com/questions/866511/what-are-the-differences-between-snaps-appimage-flatpak-and-others --Ben