XARs: An efficient system for self-contained executables

Re:XARs: An efficient system for self-contained executables by zamadatix on Friday July 13, 2018 @12:59PM (#17524629)

Distro packagers do nothing for you if:

- Your app isn't licensed in the way you like

- You don't want to provide the source code to your app

- They don't find your app interesting enough

- They don't agree with your app's policies

Static linking is a much better response for actually getting the program running on Linux systems but this still leaves out the "is there a way I can package it once for Linux" problem.

Now if it's a CLI only utility/service type tool it's a different story.

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Re:XARs: An efficient system for self-contained executables by isostatic on Friday July 13, 2018 @01:41PM (#17525005)

Fine, build your own package.

  # dpkg-deb --build ./src/ mydeb.deb

Stick your dependencies etc in ./src/DEBIAN/control

Or just distribute a tar with your application.

I used to have to distribute a cross platform java progam. It was horrendous creating the MSI on windows. The linux and osx versions were trivial

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Re:XARs: An efficient system for self-contained executables by MaxBarraclough on Friday July 13, 2018 @07:42PM (#17527742)

Java? Shouldn't that just be JAR + JVM?

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Re:XARs: An efficient system for self-contained executables by isostatic on Saturday July 14, 2018 @02:52AM (#17529176)

Called native executables too, launch icons/shortcuts etc, jvm version detection

Deployed by apt/yum/mdm andslme crappy windows thing. The latter was the problem.

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