Am 27.11.2015 um 20:25 schrieb Jacob Carlborg:
On 2015-11-27 08:55, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
That would mean more work for everyone and consequently less adoption.
How so? It's the same amount of commands, maybe one extra.
Granted, with a CLI it's not that bad. Although then you also have to
manage user credentials. So it just means a bit more to learn and
remember. That alone is not much, but it adds another bit to the barrier
of entry - something that may be irrelevant if the barrier is low
enough, but it may make a difference once things start to feel complicated.
Seriously, I think it's the best approach possible and really couldn't
imagine using a more manual system to the extend that I do now. But more
importantly, it would mean that we have a problem with cross-platform
packages. You can't expect everyone to be able to build for all
platforms. But if they don't, you can't know the dependencies or
whatever else for those other platforms, even if the code would in
theory compile fine.
The packages don't need to contain compiled binaries. It could still be
source distribution.
What I mean is that the script will have to be run for each target
platform just to know the final settings (e.g. dependencies) that it
generates.
