Re: Google Summer of Code Inquiry

[Efraim Flashner]

On Tue, Apr 09, 2024 at 05:25:35PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi Sebastian,
> 
> Sebastian Dümcke <code@sam-d.com> skribis:
> 
> > just wanted to chime in. Since last week I have some working code to
> > generate AppImages with guix pack. I was planning on tidying this up
> > for submission over the next weeks.
> > There is still work to do regarding documentation, adding options
> > specific to the AppImage format, building the AppImageKit runtime from
> > source and a lot of testing.
> 
> This is great news!  Looking forward to incorporating those changes.
> 
> > However, I believe that the remaining effort is around 8-10 hours. I
> > am happy to hand the code over to you to finish up and co-mentor
> > (though this patch would be my first contribution to guix) if you
> > think this is appropriate.
> 
> It does sound like it jeopardizes this specific project.  In a way,
> that’s a good problem to have as a project, but it does mean that
> Zachary would need to look for another project (which could still be
> related to ‘guix pack’).
> 
> Thoughts?

There's always the option of trying to create flatpaks using Guix.


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