How to Make Easy-to-Package Software, Part 2

jmmv writes "A month ago (more or less), the first part of the Making packager-friendly software was published and announced here; it seemed to be warmly accepted by the community. Now it's the turn for the second (and last) part, which has just seen the light. It deals with problems caused by recursive dependencies, configuration file handling, unprivileged builds, the make utility, build infrastructure oddities and some notes about code portability. Of course, these are just suggestions to try to make the life of packagers a bit simpler; you can just ignore them if you want to. I hope it will be of interest and that future versions of your creations are easier to package. Thanks!"

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Installers

[Umbral Blot]

You have to admit, no matter how much you like Linux, that both windows and mac have done a much better job with their installers. I can whip up an installer in a few minutes on windows that I am confident will work on everyone's machine, but this is unfortunately not true in Linux.