Re: [Texmacs-dev] appimages

[Giovanni Piredda]

My gut feeling is that an AppImage should be offered in addition to the 
distribution through standard repositories---which will be possible when 
TeXmacs will be ported to Guile 3: I do not use the current repository 
because when I tried it it wanted to overwrite Guile with Guile 1.8.

A possible downside of an AppImage is that the software is not available 
from the launcher. I do not know if the tools proposed in the AppImage 
documentation website work well.

G.

On 28.11.20 12:26, Massimiliano Gubinelli wrote:
> Dear all,
>
>   I've recently tried to install TeXmacs on two Linux machines and I just 
> realised that it is an *immense* pain. One machine run a recent Ubuntu and the 
> recipe in the website does not work. So I decided to implement an AppImage 
> target in the makefile. This will allow us to do like we already do for Mac and 
> Windows: ship a complete bundle with the program and all the needed libraries. 
> I've started from Philippe AppImage recipe and working on it. It is still not 
> finished. You find the code in my github mgubi/texmacs in the branch 
> wip-appimage.
>
> Best
> Max
>
> ps: if you have counterindications or there are some reasons we must not 
> propose appimages to users let me know.
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