Henry Vermaak wrote:
On 1 August 2011 10:24, Mark Morgan Lloyd
<[email protected]> wrote:
I wonder if I could phrase the OP's question in a slightly different way.
Allowing that Linux and other unix-style OSes have package formats of
various kinds, and allowing that an MSI file is just another implementation
of the same sort of thing, is there a "meta installer" that can at the very
least be used to build dependency lists etc.?
I guess so, but as you say, it probably would only be a skeleton.
Which I think is fine. Things like driver installs are totally
different, even between linux distros. There are installers that
bypass the os specific installing mechanisms (e.g. just copy files).
I think this is a supremely bad idea. The various package managers
have saved me lots of hassle over the years.
The thing that seems really painful to me is that a program which (say)
uses database facilities would have to have a way of asking the target
OS's package system for the name of the package that contained the
appropriate libraries. This probably implies talking to a repository
server, and also implies a build-time decision as to what versions of
each distro it is to be qualified for.
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