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This sounds like a much less general binctr [0]. I don't see how warp handles the most trivial case of a dynamically linked executable; I see no references to

This sounds like a much less general binctr [0]. I don't see how warp handles the most trivial case of a dynamically linked executable; I see no references to patchelf or other such tricks to ensure it looks within the application's cache directory for dynamically linked libraries, nor do I see any mount namespaces. Does warp do that? Why would I use warp if it doesn't when there are more generic solutions that can handle such a case, namely binctr, docker, guix pack, nix.... [0]: https://github.com/genuinetools/binctr https://github.com/genuinetools/binctr

sagichmal 8y ago
> This sounds like a much less general binctr. binctr is Linux-only, and appears to need Docker as a runtime requirement? This has neither constraint, apparently?
- TheDong 8y ago
  > appears to need Docker as a runtime requirement binctr does not require any runtime component other than a modern linux kernel with unprivileged usernamespace support. Targetting OSX / Windows does make warp distinct from what I mentioned, though I don't use those OSs so I admit I didn't think about that possible issue. Anyway, I thought this was a solved problem on both Windows and OSX since they both have conventions for self-contained applications, while linux does not.
  - sillysaurus3 8y ago
    Anyway, I thought this was a solved problem on both Windows and OSX since they both have conventions for self-contained applications, while linux does not. This is mistaken for Windows. Even if programs are run from Program Files, they will often source their DLLs from other locations.
- ealexhudson 8y ago
  I wrote stowage.org to do something similar, having a Docker runtime (which stowage _does_ have) is actually pretty neat in a couple of ways because you also get a kind of basic package management for free. It's pretty nice for sharing dev tools amongst a team. Maybe these things don't have broad use cases, but I think there are a lot of solvable pains here.
  - hbt 8y ago
    check out whalebrew it is similar to your project

sagichmal 8y ago

> This sounds like a much less general binctr. binctr is Linux-only, and appears to need Docker as a runtime requirement? This has neither constraint, apparently?

TheDong 8y ago
> appears to need Docker as a runtime requirement binctr does not require any runtime component other than a modern linux kernel with unprivileged usernamespace support. Targetting OSX / Windows does make warp distinct from what I mentioned, though I don't use those OSs so I admit I didn't think about that possible issue. Anyway, I thought this was a solved problem on both Windows and OSX since they both have conventions for self-contained applications, while linux does not.
- sillysaurus3 8y ago
  Anyway, I thought this was a solved problem on both Windows and OSX since they both have conventions for self-contained applications, while linux does not. This is mistaken for Windows. Even if programs are run from Program Files, they will often source their DLLs from other locations.
ealexhudson 8y ago
I wrote stowage.org to do something similar, having a Docker runtime (which stowage _does_ have) is actually pretty neat in a couple of ways because you also get a kind of basic package management for free. It's pretty nice for sharing dev tools amongst a team. Maybe these things don't have broad use cases, but I think there are a lot of solvable pains here.
- hbt 8y ago
  check out whalebrew it is similar to your project