From: Thamer Al-Harbash <tmh@whitefang.com>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org, rm@fabula.de, Nic <nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk>
Subject: Re: apt based package dist for guile?
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 18:16:32 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.51.0308051811400.50236@helena.whitefang.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3u18v7qli.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu>
On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Paul Jarc wrote:
> (It happens that I also think
> that apt/rpm/etc. are trying to solve a problem that can and should be
> solved upstream by the package maintainers themselves, but that's
> anoter topic.)
Sadly this is very true. I wish I got a penny for every package
maintainer who maintained his own set of patches and never
notified the author of the fixes that were made.
> Ideally, this would be integrated with slashpackage:
> <URL:http://cr.yp.to/slashpackage.html>
The problem with slashpackage, although it's a great idea, is
that it ships to be used in a specific directory. Symlinking
tricks aside, there are enough people who don't want a /package
directory and that makes the adoption of slashpackage very
slow. DJB created an alternate universe as opposed to a flexible
set of tools.
I feel guile shouldn't make the mistake of trying to create an
alternate universe. GNU autoconf is a darned good tool right now
for source distribution.
--
Thamer Al-Harbash
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-05 22:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-01 11:32 apt based package dist for guile? Nic
2003-08-03 23:41 ` MJ Ray
2003-08-04 8:44 ` Nic
2003-08-04 16:31 ` Thamer Al-Harbash
2003-08-05 13:45 ` Joshua Judson Rosen
2003-08-05 17:29 ` Thamer Al-Harbash
2003-08-05 20:18 ` rm
2003-08-05 20:41 ` Paul Jarc
2003-08-05 20:48 ` Nic
2003-08-05 21:15 ` Paul Jarc
2003-08-05 22:16 ` Thamer Al-Harbash [this message]
2003-08-05 23:02 ` Paul Jarc
2003-08-05 22:16 ` MJ Ray
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