10:19 a.m.
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
10:40 a.m.
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(a)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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11:05 a.m.
Am 31.10.2023 um 16:40 schrieb Hélio Guilherme:
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..
From my limited experience, I'm not
too enthusiastic about Snap,
either. But I'm not sure that the situation is comparable.
I would stay in plain RPMs or DEBs.
Well, to my knowledge there are no plans to abandon rpm or deb. In fact,
the gretl versions are not directly released in those formats, anyway.
That is done by the (excellent) distro packagers, spontaneously the
names Dirk Eddelbüttel and Johannes Lips come to mind, and I apologize
to those others whom I'm forgetting.
If I'm not mistaken, the release formats from the gretl project in the
narrow sense are *nix source tarballs, Windows installers, and MacOS
packages (disk images or whatever they're called these days). Any
Flatpak or Nix packages would come on top of that, that's why the
question is whether it's worth the effort.
cheers
sven
11:54 a.m.
For Linux AppImage claims to be the "solution" (even with a quote of Linus
Torvalds)^: https://appimage.org/
I am maintaining a project done in Python, and I use the same format for
all systems (pip, from source code tar).
This way I don't care about making installers. But of course, the target
audience are software testers :).
On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 4:05 PM Sven Schreiber <sven.schreiber(a)fu-berlin.de>
wrote:
Am 31.10.2023 um 16:40 schrieb Hélio Guilherme:
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..
From my limited experience, I'm not too enthusiastic about Snap, either.
But I'm not sure that the situation is comparable.
I would stay in plain RPMs or DEBs.
Well, to my knowledge there are no plans to abandon rpm or deb. In fact,
the gretl versions are not directly released in those formats, anyway. That
is done by the (excellent) distro packagers, spontaneously the names Dirk
Eddelbüttel and Johannes Lips come to mind, and I apologize to those others
whom I'm forgetting.
If I'm not mistaken, the release formats from the gretl project in the
narrow sense are *nix source tarballs, Windows installers, and MacOS
packages (disk images or whatever they're called these days). Any Flatpak
or Nix packages would come on top of that, that's why the question is
whether it's worth the effort.
cheers
sven
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