Practical Problems with distribution D projects
John Colvin
john.loughran.colvin at gmail.com
Tue Feb 25 08:13:21 PST 2014
On Tuesday, 25 February 2014 at 15:06:14 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Tuesday, 25 February 2014 at 14:51:48 UTC, Assaf Gordon
> wrote:
>> My target audience is not D developers - it is unix casual
>> users (not even developers).
>> I want to make it the easiest for them to use my program.
>> If it's requires more than the standard "configure && make &&
>> make install" (or the cmake equivalent), then many of them
>> will not do it.
>
> Then push it into distro repositories. You are NOT helping by
> recommending them to do "make install", quite the contrary,
> harming whole ecosystem. Casual users should not be even aware
> that "make install" exists. Being one of package maintainers
> myself I really hate this kind of "helping" attitude, it causes
> only trouble.
Personally I have to compile all my software by hand at work,
because I don't have root/sudo access.
Although I agree that in general one should try to work within
the package managers as much as possible, many (most?)
distributions don't have even half decent capabilities for
source-based distribution within the package manager, especially
when working without root.
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