On 03/10/2016 02:37 PM, William Stein wrote: >> >> I'm not arguing that complex is better than simple, but most of their >> build scripts are so simple that they don't work. Error handling is >> nonexistent, options are hard-coded, paths are random, the environment >> is not sanitized, installed files are not tracked, ABI changes go >> unnoticed, CFLAGS are ignored, LDFLAGS are ignored,... all things we've >> already figured out. > > Is "we" = "gentoo", "sage", or packaging experts in general? >
Gentoo "and friends." The package manager specification was originally written by someone who parted ways with Gentoo. Having a spec made it possible to create another source-based package manager that could share the same package repository. There are now three separate implementations (Portage, Paludis, and Pkgcore) of that specification, and several distributions using them. So I would include Exherbo, Funtoo, and even Google's Chrome OS (based on Gentoo) with the people who are mostly getting things right. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
