Re: discussion: GNUstep developer tools as AppImage?

Hi,

[email protected] via Discussion list for the GNUstep 
programming environment wrote:
> I think, GNUstep needs lower hurdles for entering our ecosystem and so I had the thought „What if we distribute the GNUstep dev tools as AppImage?“, e.g. bundling everything needed (basic GNUstep installation; compiler, linker, make; Gorm.app and ProjectCenter.app; some example code) into an AppImage like PikoPixel did, so that our App can be run everywhere AppImages are supported.
>
> What do you think about the idea, would it help our cause?
>
> What would be the prerequisites for such an attempt?
>
> How much work would it be?
>

I don't know about AppImages but GNUstep supports packing everything 
into a single directory containing Application, frameworks, themes, 
preferences into a single folder.

It is useful to ship a single application with its environment, I use it 
with success on windows and have scripts for that. Very convenient.
Theoretically it can also contain more than one app.

It is instead not very smart having several directories for each app, 
since that way you have multiple runtime installations and running them 
in concurrency may cause issues (beyond space waste). I don't know how 
AppImages would handle this.

-R