On Sep 22, 2009, at 1:04 PM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
i agree (and honestly i don't think a CPAN-like system will happen anytime soon).
It will happen as soon as someone does it. :D I don't think anyone objects to the idea, right?
well, like always - i do :-)
i agree with dmotd, that such a thing has to be thought through _very_ carefully. it's easy to hack together something dirty. e.g. cygwins package management system is just something i would never ever like to encounter again.
but honestly: personally as a debian user (being nurtured with apt) i am not a great friend of all these concurrent packaging systems; e.g. python-eggs/buildouts do cause me a lot of headache, because they don't integrate into apt (or any other concurrent package- manager, i guess) at all. i don't want to get Pd into the same hell....
Well, not everyone in the world uses Debian.... whether or not they should is a different question. Things like CPAN quite possibly predate debian, since we would be starting post-Debian, we could just use Debian packages internally for Pd.
.hc
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