On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:49:06AM +0300, Udi Oron wrote: > Hi Elazar! > > On 05/10/2010 05:05 PM, Elazar Leibovich wrote: >> I'm evaluating a distribution for developer desktop. > I am using Ubuntu since 7.04. > > As a starter I tried to stick only to the official distro packages, > which caused me to use older versions of the development tools. > > Later I have realized the main tools are distributed in a very easy to > install packaged - The latest versions of Eclipse, Aptana, Netbeans, > VirtualBox and more tools can be download from the vendor and installed > in one click, system wide or per user. (You do have to choose to use > Sun's Java but this is really trivial using update-alternatives.). Most > of them even auto update with their own mechanism.
I consider this a bug rather than a feature. You can easily proxy all downloads of apt [or whatever package manager you use]. You can easily automate it. But can you automate the updates from Oracle's packages? Are you sure it won't breaks you system? > Although this might > sounds strange, it works just as good as using authentic packages, and > this is the important part for me. "Official"? maybe. But I've often seen such third-party packages do rather horrible things. E.g. a package I'm trying to get properly packaged, has updated files under $HOME in the standard install script. This means they completely fail to understand the concept of a multi-user system. > Same for stuff needed to be installed from public source control. > Checkout, build, install - just works. "Installed from public source control" means "bleeding edge" and "untested". > > In the last two years people tend to use Ubuntu's PPAs ( > https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA ) more and more. Developers > choose to use this as their main distribution mechanism, and users love > it. For example, I use the daily chromium-browser and mercurial ppas. Packages there vary greatly in quality. Test and inspect before you use. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [email protected] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [email protected] | | best [email protected] | | friend _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
