Subj : Re: Icy Draw 0.4.0
To   : fusion
From : Omnibrain
Date : Tue Feb 18 2025 06:22 am


On Monday, February 17th fusion said...
 Fu> On 17 Feb 2025, Omnibrain said the following...
 Fu>  Om> Packaging on linux is hard IMO. There are too many ways doing 
 Fu>  Om> that. Maybe I just add an .appimg - should be easy for icy* because 
 Fu>  Om> rust links statically.
 Fu> 
 Fu> there's nothing special about 'make install' or package installation in 
 Fu> general.. you can just dump binaries in /usr/local/bin and throw a few 
 Fu> .desktop files in /usr/share/applications to run them. perhaps experiment 
 Fu> with a vm fresh install of a few linux flavors to see if/where all the 
 Fu> binaries "just work" ?

Problem is libc - so it doesn't just work everywhwere. Then there is no way of deinstalling. Y manual compilation can be done that way and in a way it does - it uses cargo and there are "make install" tools for that.

But doesn't help on a website or to get the thing into the stores. .DEB works and if anyone wants to set up a different working build pipeline I would take it :). Building requires some preqequisites - alone installing & maintaining these is nothing I want to do. So even a generic make install isn't that easy to do. 





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