On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Jehan Pagès <jehan.marmottard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This is something which is coming with xdg-app. See for instance this > blog post (which actually proposes already some nightly for GIMP as a > demo): > > https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2015/10/06/nightly-devel-builds-using-xdg-app/ > > When such technology is stable enough, we should be able to propose > real distro-independent packages for GIMP (which are not ugly binaries > in tarball to uncompress in a dirty way without any desktop > integration). > I would think using a distro-independent packager is more useful then something like xdg-app. There's a couple in existence already I can think off the top of my head. * FPM - https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm * omnibus - https://github.com/chef/omnibus I think it would be useful to have regular builds of packages along with builds of the software; if we can get that far. I'd rather dpkg -i or rpm -i to install a package than use a 3rd party app. For Windows/Mac platforms I'd say it's useful but for Linux I don't have much of a use for it. I had proposed a 3rd party platform to be distro-independent in the past (Steam) but there wasn't much interest around supporting that. SAM -- I prefer to encrypt my email GPG FINGERPRINT 4096 KEY 8D8B F0E2 42D8 A068 572E BF3C E8F7 3234 7257 E65F https://keybase.io/samrocketman curl https://keybase.io/samrocketman/key.asc | gpg --import - Learn how to encrypt your email with the Email Self Defense guide: https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/ _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list
