Re[2]: [Mingw-users] Interesting article on packaging

[Paul S. <pa...@is...>]

Hello SONE,

SONE Takeshi <ts...@ts...> wrote on Sunday, December 03, 2000:

ST> Systems like rpm/dpkg/apt are for operating systems, which themselves
ST> are organized from _thousands_ of packages.
ST> Indeed, it is very cool that "apt-get update && apt-get -y upgrade"
ST> automagically keeps my Debian GNU/Linux box up-to-date.

    I wanted emphasize importance of package meta-information, not
pledge for specific package format. But once the former is available,
all features up to automagical updating come naturally.

ST> For mingw platform, the operating system is supplied and
ST> maintained by that Big Company. Our distribution should contain
ST> only development toolchain and some libraries at most,
ST> they would become 10 packages or so.

    Yes, as for core Mingw distro, yes. But there's potentially
onbound number of at least ports of open-source/GNU soft.

ST> rpm/dpkg/apt are too complicated and overkill.
ST> Simple zip file should suffice.

ST> --
ST> Takeshi


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