Potential disaster for Rev/Linux pendrive apps

[Bob Warren]

In order to close this thread (since the problem has apparently been 
resolved), I would like to explain why I felt it necessary to use my 
baseball bat against Ubuntu.

There is an "anti-standalone" movement in the Linux community. How 
strong it is, I am not sure. This is what I said to Kevin on 21st Feb:

"This issue is a potential point of conflict between Rev and the Linux 
producers. When I suggested the use of standalones to the maker of 
Gambas, he gave me a very reasonable answer as to why he was totally 
against it. The point is that if apps depend on system libraries as they 
usually do in Windows, patches and security fixes to the libraries are 
automatically applicable to the apps. That would be fine if app 
installation in Linux (including Gambas) was not such a headache as it 
is currently. All we see at present is a state of total anarchy, 
complication and failure in this respect."

In fact, I am still not entirely convinced that this issue really began 
life in Feisty (/Gnome) as a bug or accident. Whatever, baseball bat 
being necessary or not, the situation seems to have come to a happy 
conclusion, at least for now.

Bob