On Thursday, 24 May 2012 at 10:50:57 UTC, Kevin Cox wrote:
On May 24, 2012 6:43 AM, "Tobias Pankrath"
<[email protected]> wrote:
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.
Yes and no, for actually using programs that use the language
the system
package manager is far superior because when you install an app
it can also
install the required packages in one go. (As opposed to having
to go to the
d package manager and get the right libs. However you bring up
the point
of development. If you look at the arch build system it has
what you
want. You can write descriptions on how to download and build
a package
and then is it just as easy to install as a dget would be,
however thee
advantage is that you can still depend on these packages.
Also, for
switching versions all you have to do is change on variable.
I'm sure
there are things like this for other systems but I use arch and
I see a
solution to your problem.
When I worked at CERN, our team was making use of CMT for C++.
This is a Python+CVS build tool that is nicely integrated with
source
code repository and also takes care of dependencies and
versioning.
I never heard about it outside CERN.
Some information in case you want to read about it,
http://www.cmtsite.org/CMTDoc.html
http://lhcb-comp.web.cern.ch/lhcb-comp/support/CMT/cmt.htm
--
Paulo
