Re: [Denemo-devel] Fwd: Re: Today's download: Tues 13 Feb appears to be broken

[Richard Shann]

On Wed, 2018-04-04 at 14:57 +0000, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, Apr 3, 2018, 12:46 PM Richard Shann <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2018-03-28 at 09:23 -0500, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> > > There is a GNU/Linux AppImage here:
> > > http://denemo.org/~jjbenham/AppImage/denemo_2.2.3.AppImage
> > >
> > Oh! Now I understand - I guessed AppImage was short for Apple
> > Image,
> > something to do with Macs but Wikipedia tells me it is for distro
> > independent packaging for GNU/Linux :)
> > That sounds good, I'll try it out tomorrow when the fix I put in
> > today
> > can be tested. [this was days ago, it didn't work ...]
> 
> Oh. I made this snapshot days ago. I will try to update it today. I
> have yet to make this automated. I have some new hardware that should
> allow me to do this. 
> 
> To execute it you just download it. chmod +x. Then launch it like a
> binary.
> 
> > 
> > > It does not have any of the dependencies in the image. Should I
> > > package lilypond and all the dependencies even if they are in
> > each
> > > distro anyway?
> > 
> > What "dependencies"? 
> 
> Evince, librubberband, portaudio, etc...
> 
> > LilyPond, though not strictly speaking a
> > dependency will generally be wanted and packaging the version which
> > Denemo expects would avoid problems for beginners while not
> > preventing
> > people using their own version. Do you have anything else in mind?
> 
> I thought we discussed having a skinny version that contained only
> denemo then a fat version containing all dependencies all the way
> down to libc and lilypond.

Yes, I thought we had agreed that - I'm not sure what the email that I
sent (above) was still doing lurking on my desktop. I tested out the
AppImage version and it ran fine against my Debian Stable libraries. A
fat version with all dependencies would carry on working far into the
future.

Richard