Re: Update mechanism for standalone app/ Delta Updates

Hi Konstantin,

just to clarify: are you mainly interested in support for <overlay> on Linux, on Windows or both?

The two would probably require entirely different implementations.

Regards
Bastian


-----Original Message-----
From: Konstantin Dmitriev [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Samstag, 25. Februar 2017 09:49
To: The Zero Install system <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Zero-install-devel] Update mechanism for standalone app/ Delta Updates

2017-02-24 0:45 GMT+07:00 Bastian Eicher <[email protected]>:
> The <overlay> binding was intended to support applications that do not 
> use environment variables and expect their dependencies to be located 
> in fixed locations. Zero Install would use a combination of chroot und 
> a union file system to make that specific application “see” its 
> dependency in the specified location in the filesystem without actually placing it there.
> However, this was never implemented, since it is rather complex and 
> especially difficult to support on Windows.

I am very interested in that option. Does ZI team accepts bounties (i.e. via Bountysource)?

Best Regards,
Konstantin


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