I made it up at work a few weeks ago :-) We were discussing the questionable maintainability of apps and languages that insist on handrolling their own dependency management, particularly when they do it in a way that doesn't match how distros do it.
On 28 September 2012 15:23, Derric Atzrott <[email protected]> wrote: >>After the ones about sending email and Common Lisp, we can add: >> >>"Every app also expands until it contains a sketchy rewrite of apt-get." >> >>c.f. Perl, PHP, Ruby, Python, WordPress ... >> >>One thing to possibly think about: compatibility of any new system >>with Linux distro packaging mechanisms, like apt-get and yum. The less >>distro maintainers have to mess with MediaWiki the better. > > Wanted to send this to you directly, since it is off topic. > > Where is that quote from? It is so incredibly true. > > Thank you, > Derric Atzrott > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
