On Aug 12, 2008, at 12:42 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
Markus Wanner wrote:
Hi,
Robert Haas wrote:
I can't speak for anyone else, but I much prefer packages that make
use of my operating system's package management system rather than
rolling their own. If I need a perl package that I can't get
through
yum, I build my own RPMs rather than installing through CPAN.
I very much agree to that (well, s/RPM/DEB/).
But AFAIK we also need to provide packages for OSes without a package
management system. Windows being the most popular such OS.
Which probably means we should provide something that can work on its
own *or* through another package management system (very much like
CPAN
and others, again).
We don't get economies of scale without an OS-agnostic way of
installing
packages. I realize many prefer their OS-native packaging system, but
that isn't the target audience of a packaging system that will
increase
adoption.
If the OS-agnostic version is designed appropriately then turning
it (mechanically) into an OS-specific one should be possible.
Cheers,
Steve
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