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Back in 2000? Good tools like Make where built in the 70s that's utilized by Autotools and other great build systems to bridge the gap between different platfor
by _sabe_ 13y ago
Back in 2000? Good tools like Make where built in the 70s that's utilized by Autotools and other great build systems to bridge the gap between different platforms, so that you don't have to distribute as the author of the article we're discussing, a whole runtime with all dependencies.
- TeMPOraL 13y agoBut the main point of the article was (which I strongly agree with) that running stuff like Autotools, gems, or package manager kind of sucks when you just want to install a console tool. At least back in the "old times" we were distributing program + additional runtime, and not requiring a random unexpected runtime in proper version + whole supporting infrastructure + program source code to build. The former option greatly simplified installation.