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I wish all software could provide portable binaries. However, compiling portable binaries is hard. Not many developers have the skill.

• dTal 4y ago
  Indeed. This seems like a tooling issue, and one that strikes me as more worthy of community attention than reinventing the package manager for the nth time.
  • veeti 4y ago
    Yes, and once we have the tooling to build portable .tar.gz application packages someone should come up with a tool to automatically upgrade them.
    • dTal 4y ago
      Perhaps. Extrapolating the idea that .tar.gz application packages should be standalone, a better system than an external updater might be that the aforementioned build tooling includes an "update" script inside the .tar.gz. Then the user can run them at their own convenience. This is similar to how Firefox's updater works, except Firefox itself does double duty as the update script.
• deleted 4y ago
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