On 18.02.2013 08:32, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 15:40:25 +0100
"Dicebot" <[email protected]> wrote:
Packaging is best done (and should be) by OS package manager, not
hundreds of languages-specific managers. Good language package
manager in my opinion is just an information source for OS
package builders.
I'm not real big on the idea of OS package managers. Not when Unix is
in the picture anyway. I'm getting really fed up with software that has
a "download / install" webpage populated with totally different
instructions for an endless, yet always incomplete, list of Linux
variants. And *maybe* BSD. And then on top of that, the poor *project*
maintainers have to maintain all of that distro-specific cruft. Unless
they're lucky and the project is big enough that the ditro maintainers
are willing to waste *their* time converting the package into something
that only works on their own distro.
I believe I can sum up my thoughts with: "Fuck that shit."
Are you aware of the 0install project
(http://zero-install.sourceforge.net/) ?
It seems to me that it solves most packaging problems while still being
able to collaborate with the OS package manager if needed.
From the project page:
"Zero Install is a decentralised cross-distribution software
installation system. Other features include full support for shared
libraries, sharing between users, and integration with native platform
package managers. It supports both binary and source packages, and works
on Linux, Mac OS X, Unix and Windows systems. It is fully Open Source."
--
Marco Nembrini
