[PD-dev] deb packages discussion

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

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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