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AutoPackaging for Linux

Posted by Zonk on from the automagically dept.

Isak Savo writes "The next generation packaging format for Linux has reached 1.0. With Autopackage officially declared stable, there is now an easy way for developers to create up to date, easy installable packages. There are lots of screenshots available including a flash demo of a package installation."

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  1. Oops... by __aaitqo8496 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Error: 408 Request Time-out

  2. Re:nextgen already here: emerge by jay-be-em · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah, because everyone wants to wait 8 hours for gnome to compile.

    Give me a fucking break.

    --
    "Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness." --Eric Blair
  3. Re:nextgen already here: emerge by evvk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If autopackage is anything like autoconf, it won't help at all. It will work on just one distro and be broken on others.

    I've said this many times, and in my opinion autoconf is totally wrong a solution to a problem. The proper solution would have been a package database database and library of wrappers or macros of common incompatibilities between flavours of *nix (syscalls, libc). As it stands, lots of redundant work is done by maintaining an -- often broken -- autoconf script for each package. I for one will never make autoconf a dependency -- only a discouraged option. It must always be possible to edit a Makefile.