On 20/06/16 10:43, Rainer Müller wrote:
Furthermore, back to the topic of Snappy packages, I recommend to read
this post by Kyle Keen. He describes how distributions adapt software to
the needs of their users. This mostly also applies to MacPorts, as we
often have to patch software to make it work on OS X at all or to work
with our own policies (filesystem hierarchy, port select, etc.).
http://kmkeen.com/maintainers-matter/
Thanks for that article. Here are a couple of talks on what the Python
project (in particular the Python Packaging Authority
https://www.pypa.io ) is working on to make system integrators' lives easier
"Python Packaging: Today and Tomorrow" (2014)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcxHqzhfvyk
"The future of Python packaging" (2015)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc9khbXBes8
Russell
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