[Gambas-user] check 4 Gambas Runtime files?

[Rolf-Werner Eilert]

Am 14.12.2017 22:46, schrieb Dimitris Anogiatis:
> Docker might be a slight overkill for Gambas apps, in terms of
> storage...  with the introduction of AppImage, Snap, and Flatpak
> distribution systems,


Yes! AppImage - the Scribus guys use this to provide a 
still-not-quite-ready version for the daring. For instance, the new qt5 
version of it ran like a charm on my old, qt4-only system. So I had a 
chance to test it without having the libraries installed.

However, it was an English-only version, and the translations didn't 
run, so there might be limitations.

How does LibreOffice do it? I can install any newer version on any older 
system without hassle. There is just one big rpm, and the language pack 
has to be installed separately.

How does Mozilla do it? Up to a certain level, I could install newer 
Firefox versions. Some day it stopped, don't remember why, but it missed 
some later libraries, probably kernel libs. Today newer Firefox versions 
are provided through the repos of my distro (Suse).

Would it be possible to keep "runtime" and "IDE" parts of Gambas 
strictly apart? For users just installing a Gambas application, the 
installation script would only have to look for the latest runtime part. 
Just like with Python, Java etc.

Regards
Rolf