Let's say for the sake of argument that I whipped up some software over the weekend. It's 9pm Sunday night and I want to publish my work so other people can pla

Let's say for the sake of argument that I whipped up some software over the weekend. It's 9pm Sunday night and I want to publish my work so other people can play around with it. My friends being true nerds all have different opinions on which distro is the best. Let's consider my alternatives. 1. I can (and will) publish the source and give instructions on how to build it. This works but is a bit inconvenient for the user. They have to manually install and manually check for updates and manually install updates. 2. I can publish on language-package-manager. This is a simple and easy process. It can be figured out in less than 30 minutes. For the user they put the name of my project into a config file and that's it. 3. I can publish on top-5 system package managers. This will take days or maybe even weeks of labor. So basically, it's just not viable for hobbyists. It can only work for companies that pay people a salary to deal with it.