[Nix-dev] AppImage

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 27/02/16 15:28, Vladimír Čunát 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.

Actually it was. It's certainly a goal that a Nix package works on any Linux
distribution.

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