On 10/31/2015 01:32 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
I have been part of Debian for over twenty years, building (and designing)
countless packages (including Octave for a few years and now R for well over
a decade) and have seen how a coherent installation and dependency system can
work wonders. I would much prefer to see work on (say) nuget for Windoze,
brew for OS X and something for apt/yum for those of us on the third rail.
We don't need to reinvent packaging.
I'd be +1 for this as well if someone has time to work on it. Basically
I like the idea of moving away from our bootstrapped windows
installation process to something based on a package manager, as long as
the use of that package manager solution is just as simple for novices.
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