[modular-debian] Re: Goals and Starting points?

  • From: Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: modular-debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 12:58:53 -0500

Steve Litt wrote:

On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 12:03:06 -0500
Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



If anything, I expect upstream developers have a general dislike for
packaging and distros in general.

Just speaking for myself, when I was an "upstream", after a brief
period of pride in VimOutliner being in the Debian repository, I began
to dislike packaging and distros, and wished they'd just grab
VimOutliner from the VimOutliner website. It's unbelievable the ways a
packager can screw up the features of your software that you consider
top priority.
Likewise. And when I actually do put on a developer hat, I'm pretty much always working in a higher level language (these days, Erlang) -- I just want to install the based environment, and do everything at a level well above that handled by a packaging system.
(Parenthetically: Why does anybody package perl code. CPAN does such a better job.) 

Miles


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In practice, there is.   .... Yogi Berra

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