[Smtk-developers] AppImage

[TJ Corona]

My linux-fu is limited and (apparently) out of date.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 <ben.boeckel at kitware.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 11:10:52 -0400, TJ Corona wrote:
>> I just came across AppImage <https://appimage.org/>, 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