On Monday, 18 February 2013 at 11:51:14 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
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Ugh, have you ever tried to do it in practice? Because I have
been maintaining few packages, primarily for Arch Linux, and it
is not even remotely close to what you say. There may be some
bureaucratic headache to get stuff into official Debian repos,
but you always can create your own mirror, like it was done here
for D stuff: http://code.google.com/p/d-apt/wiki/APT_Repository .
Packaging itself is always simple and requires close to zero
efforts.
And saying you don't want to learn OS package manager to
distribute stuff for it is like saying you don't want to learn OS
kernel API to write drivers to it. Sure it is so better to be
forced to learn dozens of language-specific package & build
managers to just get a single application working. Software
ecosystems are evil.
