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Well, there's the Unix distro package system and another repository for Ruby gems and CPAN and LuaRocks and Hackage and ... They keep stepping on each others' t
by silentbicycle 17y ago
Well, there's the Unix distro package system and another repository for Ruby gems and CPAN and LuaRocks and Hackage and ... They keep stepping on each others' toes, but I'm not sure the solution is to add even more mutually incompatible packaging systems. By their nature, they need to see the system (inc. what dependencies are available) as a whole to be really useful, and fragmenting that picture makes the situation worse for all involved. (On second reading, it looks like it's designed to try to work with CPAN et al, so that's an improvement.)
It would be nice if it actually worked, but coming up with a perfectly portable global packaging system would be hard enough if it was working across platforms for one vendor, let alone the big mob that is the open source world.