чт, 20 июн. 2019 г. в 14:47, Rosanne DiMesio dimesio@earthlink.net:
Thoughts?
There seems to be a trend where applications are distributed with all their runtime dependencies bundled, libraries, compatibility layers, etc. With a filesystem that has built-in compression this may not take up that much more space on disk.
To support this with Windows applications, I imagine having conversion tools like: msi2rpm, msi2deb, msi2snap, msi2flatpak or maybe a generic tool for all installers. (Maybe such tools could even be ran on Windows and download extra things they need.)
I have seen Windows applications distributed in such a way before (with a bundled Wine version), but I am not aware of any tools to automate the creation of such packages. Maybe such tooling could become part of the Wine project?
Another thing I'm wondering about is what would happen if Windows builds of libraries like GStreamer would be used by Wine instead. Could this reduce the need for some libraries to be provided by the host system?
Best regards, Julius