See https://xkcd.com/927/
You can't fix "easier installation" by inventing yet another "mine is better than yours" package manager (as I keep telling a friend involved in a Linux-ish port/generalization of homebrew). It just splinters and "almost surely" never gets traction. The reason I remain bullish on Docker [1] is simply that it won the mindshare game and is becoming widely-enough used. Part of that is technology (which is good), part of is salesmanship and polish, and part is luck and happenstance. To me this is somewhat similar to github which succeeded because very good UI made a very complicate underlying protocol (which is objectively still way too hard for what we do: simple saves/retrieve/variants of work). Dirk [1] Required disclosure: I didn't just suggest SWC use it. Been there, done that, and still have bruises to show it ;-) -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | [email protected] _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
