[Nix-dev] AppImage

[Anand Patil]

Having only read the front page, it looks like it could be complementary to
Nix. You could develop and build in Nix for reproducibility, efficiency and
completeness. Then, for portable deployment, you could run nix2appimage or
else include AppImageKit in a derivation and write the AppImage to $out. It
would be like using Nix to build a statically linked binary or a Docker
image.

On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 9:29 AM Vladimír Čunát <vcunat at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 02/27/2016 03:00 PM, Kevin Cox wrote:
> > So while I think it is cool that it is simply a binary you can run you
> > obviously lose out on the efficiency of Nix.
>
> The aims seem significantly different. Appimage and many others
> evidently focus on creating bundles that "just work" everywhere. That
> was never among the (main) objectives of Nix, although you can make it
> create similar bundles.
>
> --Vladimir
>
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