Potential disaster for Rev/Linux pendrive apps

Luis luis at anachreon.co.uk
Fri Mar 9 10:36:24 EST 2007


You should be making baseball bats... :)

Cheers,

Luis.


Bob Warren wrote:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/88229
> 
> *Re: [Bug 88229] Re: Runtime Revolution progs do not run directly from 
> pendrive in Feisty Herd 4* 
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/88229/comments/3> from Bob 
> Warren <https://bugs.launchpad.net/%7Ewarren-howsoft> at 2007-03-09 
> 15:18:26 UTC
> 
> The inability to run Runtime Revolution standalone apps directly from
> the pendrive in Feisty Herd 4 also applies to Rebol standalone apps. The
> message given by Feisty is:
> 
> "Cannot open /media/KINGSTON/userapp
> No application suitable for automatic installation is available for
> handling this kind of file"
> 
> Such Runtime Revolution and Rebol apps are called "standalones" because
> that is what they are meant to be: they do not at present require any
> kind of installation and they can be run directly from any location in
> the file system, including from media such as pendrives. Setup utilites
> are not provided by Runtime Revolution or by Rebol simply because they
> are not required, and as far as I know there is no such thing as a
> general purpose setup utility provided by Ubuntu themselves.
> 
> If this is a new "feature" rather than a bug, will it later be extended
> to other locations in the file system such as the Desktop or the User
> Home folder? And if it is a "feature", what are its motives? Under this
> scenario, existing applications written in RunRev or Rebol would be
> completely clobbered!
> 
> Time has passed, April 19th is getting closer, and still there is no
> report from Ubuntu as to whether this is a bug or a feature has appeared.
> 
> It should be understood that this is potentially a very serious matter
> that perhaps requires treatment at the very highest level, and for this
> reason I have sent copies of this post to Mr Kevin Miller of Runtime
> Revolution and Mr Carl Sassenrath of Rebol Technologies.
> 
> Bob Warren
> 
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