[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