From: <p.c...@ar...> - 2004-01-09 13:58:08
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As I said I found AppDir and liked the ideas. I haven't heard it (for linux) before i found out about rox. Well, of course that is just me. However I wonder if there has been some discussion to try to make it a little more wide spread. For example integrating it into an upcomming distribution independant format like autopackage.org, allowing both paradigms to coexist in one format? cheers, Peter |
From: Thomas L. <ta...@ec...> - 2004-02-02 13:30:35
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On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 02:58:04PM +0100, p.c...@ar... wrote: > > As I said I found AppDir and liked the ideas. I haven't heard it (for > linux) before i found out about rox. Well, of course that is just me. > > However I wonder if there has been some discussion to try to make it a > little more wide spread. For example integrating it into an upcomming > distribution independant format like autopackage.org, allowing both > paradigms to coexist in one format? While you can put ROX apps inside packages, you lose many of the advantages. Eg: you can't be sure what installing a program is doing (because you're running a script rather than just copying), and you can't uninstall by deleting (the package manager would get confused). It does still keep everything in one place, though. The main advantage would be dependancy handling (eg, install Edit and get ROX-Lib too). However, Zero Install provides an easier and safer way to do that... -- Thomas Leonard http://rox.sourceforge.net tal00r at ecs.soton.ac.uk tal197 at users.sourceforge.net GPG: 9242 9807 C985 3C07 44A6 8B9A AE07 8280 59A5 3CC1 |