Re: AppDirs, evolved?

Thomas Leonard <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.desktop.rox.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 28 June 2010 00:04, Neil Graham <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Jun 2010 17:42:08 -0700, Mithat Konar wrote:
>
>> Is anyone familiar with the "SpatialBundle" concept being developed by
>> Luca Cappelletti? Here is an Italian Wikipedia page on it (which Google
>> translates reasonably well): http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpatialBundle
>>
>> Of interest are the presence of AppRun, AppInfo.xml, and .DirIcon files.
>> Do these come from an ancestor common to ROX, or is this a direct
>> descendant of ROX?
>
> Looks like a descendant,  This is something that I had been giving some
> thought to myself.  Especially after seeing the discussion about fatelf
> and adding icons to elf files. The desire seems to be for bundles. and
> the ROX bundle system seems like a good starting point.
>
> The things I had imagined to be logical points of extension were:
>        Allow a single bundle support multiple architectures
>        Include libraries within the bundle.
>        Cooperation with ZeroInstall
>        The ability to optionally Trim a bundle to only include content
> required on the current platform.

Don't the existing bundles do this anyway?

e.g. to create a "fat" bundle of ROX-Filer:

$ 0export --arch Linux-i586 --arch Linux-x86_64 rox-filer-bundle.sh
http://rox.sourceforge.net/2005/interfaces/ROX-Filer

To trim a bundle, just install the fat one (optionally to a temporary
directory) and then run 0export again with fewer --arch options.

Might need a ROX front-end though. Currently, it asks if you want to
add a launcher to the GNOME menu...

( http://0install.net/0export.html )


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