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> Shipping a simple binary installer for multiple distributions is still tricky. Because you're bypassing the package manager. Packaging isn't all that hard, m
by deadbunny 9y ago
> Shipping a simple binary installer for multiple distributions is still tricky.
Because you're bypassing the package manager. Packaging isn't all that hard, much easier than building your own binary installer that handles multiple platforms.
- alkonaut 9y agoRight. My point was that it's easy to deploy to one or a couple of distributions but still painful to deploy for "Linux" without further specification. Meanwhile on windows their trainwreck of an installation system works for all windows from 95 usually.