On Tuesday, 25 February 2014 at 15:06:14 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
On Tuesday, 25 February 2014 at 14:51:48 UTC, Assaf Gordon
wrote:
My target audience is not D developers - it is unix casual
users (not even developers).
I want to make it the easiest for them to use my program.
If it's requires more than the standard "configure && make &&
make install" (or the cmake equivalent), then many of them
will not do it.
Then push it into distro repositories. You are NOT helping by
recommending them to do "make install", quite the contrary,
harming whole ecosystem. Casual users should not be even aware
that "make install" exists. Being one of package maintainers
myself I really hate this kind of "helping" attitude, it causes
only trouble.
Personally I have to compile all my software by hand at work,
because I don't have root/sudo access.
Although I agree that in general one should try to work within
the package managers as much as possible, many (most?)
distributions don't have even half decent capabilities for
source-based distribution within the package manager, especially
when working without root.
