Announcement: One Click Installer

Greg K Nicholson spam at gkn.me.uk
Tue Aug 7 01:22:34 UTC 2007


Krzysztof Lichota:
> Conrad Knauer napisaƂ(a):
>> I note, later on in your e-mail
>> that you have in mind basically a front-end for just about any package
>> management system.  That's one way towards getting a unified Linux
>> package management system, though Mark Shuttleworth comments that "so
>> many divergent packaging systems in the free software world (and I
>> include the various *bsd's) is a waste of time and energy"
> 
> I couldn't agree more. But I cannot solve the problem of common
> packaging format, so I am not trying to. The problem of common packaging
> format is important from application developer view, because they have
> to create many packages. I am trying to solve the problem from user
> point of view, so that he does not have to choose from that plethora of
> formats/distributions/versions.

Drive-by href: http://autopackage.org/





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