On Thursday, 24 May 2012 at 09:50:33 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
On Thu, 2012-05-24 at 10:34 +0200, Paulo Pinto wrote:
[...]
Every time I need to do something in an language without
official package manager support, I curse myself.
On the other hand Debian, Fedora, FreeBSD, MacOSX, etc. already
have
package managements systems. A problem is that Windows does not.
Experience shows (Maven, Gems, Hackage, ...) that having
language
specific packaging and platform specific packaging causes
strife.
Platform specific package management is not enough for
development use. It only works, if you need the version the
platform provides. And everyone must have the same platform to
have the same version.
