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As soon as people realised there was an easier way than building and testing packages on 8 different distros, then having people whine because they don't act "r
by vertex-four 10y ago
As soon as people realised there was an easier way than building and testing packages on 8 different distros, then having people whine because they don't act "right" for each distro. Packaging takes a lot of time out of development work.
- snuxoll 10y agoIt's a single binary, there isn't much "acting right" to be done. Build, install to /usr/bin with appropriate permissions and be done with it. It's not like Go is dynamically linked and requires you deal with varying soname's between distributions.
- reubano 10y agoso does that mean there's no equivalent of `pypi` or `npm` for go? Or is the point to not impose any requirements on the user?