App installer design: only source packages or reproducible builds

[Dmitry Shachnev]

On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Jeremy Bicha <jbicha at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On 15 May 2013 16:41, Jos van den Oever <jos at vandenoever.info> wrote:
>>  1) only ship source code and let the user compile
>
> Ubuntu is not Gentoo.
>
> Thanks,
> Jeremy

I think most of Ubuntu Touch apps are supposed to be written in a
language that doesn't require compilation, i.e. Qt Quick, or
HTML+JS+CSS. In such case it may make sense to not distinguish between
source and binary packages.

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Dmitry Shachnev