Re: discussion: GNUstep developer tools as AppImage?

Oolite is packaged as an appimage (and a flatpak). Initially I set up a 
traditional appimage, but these force you to build on old distros and 
have old dependencies, so I switched to 
https://github.com/pkgforge-dev/Anylinux-AppImages/blob/main/HOW-TO-MAKE-THESE.md. 
AnyLinux appimages have modern dependencies but can run on old distros, 
something we need as we are about to move from SDL 1.2 to SDL 3.4.

Cheers,
Mike

On 26/05/2026 03:00, Joseph Maloney wrote:
> I used squashfs as an experiment to wrap app bundles inside a mountable image as just an experiment a while back, nothing production ready yet.  That's also what AppImage uses and there is a script twightlight has to make GNUstep AppImages.  I forget where the link is offhand but we should ask twightlight in the next GNUstep meeting.
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> On Monday, May 25th, 2026 at 6:41 AM, "[email protected]" via Discussion list for the GNUstep programming environment <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>>> Am 25.05.2026 um 12:25 schrieb James Carthew <[email protected]>:
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>>> Has anyone looked into shipping a linux equivalent to a DMG image for GNUstep applications?
>> Aren’t the Gershwin guys using mountable ISOs for their app distribution or am I mixing that up?
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>> kind regards,
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>> 	Lars
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