xdg-app and gtkmm

[Alexander Larsson]

On mån, 2015-11-30 at 10:06 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On lör, 2015-11-28 at 15:03 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > 
> Everyone who looks at xdg-app wants whatever thing they rely on in
> the
> runtime, but adding everything is not supportable in the long term.
> It
> is also not a good idea for every library that is not in the standard
> runtime to make a new runtime. Maintaining a gtkmm runtime is
> equivalent to forking your own distro, and you wound never want to do
> that. So, unless your primary interest is in handling openssl or
> glibc
> security fixes, don't make a runtime.
> 
> Instead, my current work is about tooling to make it easy to bundle
> things. I just landed the xdg-app-builder tool in git, which takes a
> simple json file and builds your apps dependencies, with the goal of
> moving all the metadata used for this to the indiviual upstreams of
> the
> modules you depend on.

Oh, and for example, take a look at the new nightlty build recipe for
inkscape using this, which includes gtkmm:

https://github.com/alexlarsson/nightly-build-apps/blob/master/org.inkscape.InkscapeDevel.json

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