Re: Overlap or synergy with Xdg-App

On 30 April 2016 at 22:42, Bastian Eicher <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I was wondering whether you guys think that Zero Install's feature set has
> any overlap with or could maybe be combined with the Xdg-App project
> (https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/SandboxedApps).
>
> I haven't tried Xdg-App yet, but the following concepts mentioned in the
> documentation caught my attention:
>  * 3rd parties distribute applications that works on multiple distributions
>  * Per-user installation of applications
>  * Immutable, deduplicated implementations with multiple versions
> side-by-side (using OSTree)
>
> The big differences I noticed:
>  * Mount applications and their dependencies to well-known locations (e.g.
> /app) rather than making them relocatable
>  * Sandboxing built right in
>  * Explicit "install" step required
>  * Linux-only
>
> Perhaps with Xdg-App's bind mount feature could be replicated with an
> <overlay> binding in Zero Install? Any thoughts?

I think I tried interesting them in 0install a few years ago. If it
becomes popular we should certainly look at it. I don't have much time
at the moment though (started a new job recently).


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