Announcement: One Click Installer

Scott Kitterman ubuntu at kitterman.com
Tue Aug 7 20:05:36 UTC 2007


On Tuesday 07 August 2007 15:57, Krzysztof Lichota wrote:

> This is the approach of apt:// protocol. It is not extensible and it
> will not make Ubuntu competitive to rich software ecosystem of Windows.
> There _must_ be the way for third party software creators to publish
> their software easily. Otherwise they will not be interested in creating
> their apps for Linux.

I spend a lot of time packaging software for the Debian packaging system.  It 
sounds to me like you believe this is a waste of my time because a generally 
extensible packaging system that will result in reliable installations across 
diverse architectures and hardware either exists or it trivial to create.

Is that right?

Scott K




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