Re: [Gimp-developer] xdg-app; was: WGO Transition Meeting

[Partha Bagchi <partha1b gmail com>]

Pretty much what I do for my McGimp builds.

I will try to do a write up on how to do this in Linux which should be
quite possible.

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Michael Natterer <mitch gimp org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-11-17 at 11:17 +0300, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Sam Gleske wrote:
> >
> > > I'd rather dpkg -i or rpm -i to install a package than use a 3rd
> > > party
> > > app.  For Windows/Mac platforms I'd say it's useful but for Linux I
> > > don't
> > > have much of a use for it.  I had proposed a 3rd party platform to
> > > be
> > > distro-independent in the past (Steam) but there wasn't much
> > > interest
> > > around supporting that.
> >
> > Sam, I think I'm missing something. What's really needed is a static
> > build of up-to-date version of GIMP. That's all.
> >
> > It doesn't have to be RPM, and it doesn't have to be DEB. It doesn't
> > even have to be installable. A simple static build inside a tarball,
> > provided by download.gimp.org, will work just fine. Thousands and
> > thousands of Blender users will confirm.
>
> There is no such thing as a "simple static build" of GIMP and its
> dependencies. There are gazillions of loadable modules in our
> libraries, I really don't see what a static build would improve.
>
> We need a *relocatable* build, but it doesn't need to be static.
>
> - build all deps into a prefix
> - enable relocation on all of them where needed/possible
> - provide a launcher script
> - tar up the install prefix
> - ...
> - profit
>
> --Mitch
>
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