Just my opinion.

I am very conservative about package formats, or managers.
I hate snap, and flatpack is second in the list. There is also AppImage, and I don't like it either..

I would stay in plain RPMs or DEBs.

But this is me,...


On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 3:19 PM Sven Schreiber <sven.schreiber@fu-berlin.de> wrote:
Hi,

some time ago there were some discussions on whether a Flatpak-style
release of gretl versions might make sense and/or be worth the effort.
Now I've read about another tool: Nix, https://nixos.org/

I don't have any experience with that, but they support Linux and MacOS,
the latter is perhaps interesting for us (gretl). AFAIK Flatpak is
Linux-only (right?).

My --perhaps a little naive-- vision would be that more or less the same
single gretl package release for Nix could run on any (?) Linux distro,
on MacOS, and on Windows' Subsystem for Linux (also graphically since
version 2).

Has anybody already worked with that? Is it doable in practice?

thanks

sven
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