[portalplatform]

I haven't looked at Sandstorm packages in detail yet. I think it definitely should be possible to make a Sandstorm-runner app for Portal. I've experimented with doing this for Docker. It should also be possible to run a full copy of Sandstorm (or more than one) as a Portal app VM. We'll support any and all standards that emerge.

For now, we're just trying to keep it really simple and the JSON config seems as simple as we can make it. Apps could do a lot more, like include their own OS images or rootfs tarballs if it makes sense.

[ocdtrekkie]

My thoughts on running Sandstorm in an app on a server that runs apps is similar to my thoughts on running ownCloud on Sandstorm. There's definitely uses, to be able to use features the parent app platform doesn't support (Sandstorm doesn't do everything ownCloud does yet), but running an app platform inside an app platform is sometimes silly. (Though it's probably relatively trivial to run Sandstorm inside Portal Platform.)

Though running individual Sandstorm apps as individual Portal Platform apps is probably also doable, since SPKs contain everything a Linux server needs to run an app. Sandstorm and Portal Platform manifests are pretty similar, and the way the apps are run are similar.

My thought here is just that if your 'install' script can unpack and set up from an SPK file, you might be able to take advantage of some of the apps already being published (currently) exclusively for Sandstorm.

I've been poking around Windows' SDKs to turn iOS and Android apps and stuff into Windows apps, so the concept of this sort of thing happens to be fresh in my head currently. :D