Posted by: Administrator
on November 12, 2005 02:49 AM
Well, preparing the product to be distributed is part of being a developer.
A lot of open source projects just get released as unprepared source code, leaving users the deal with all the dependancies and often don't even go through an optimization stage, expecting everyone else to buy a new computer again.
Windows software has dependancies too, but they know what libraries come with the operating system, and include the ones that don't. They've solved this problem and it's a relatively simple system.
1) They know what's in the system.
2) They include what isn't.
This is seperate from most OSS projects, which goes like this;
1) They have no idea system it'll be run on or what's in it. There is no set of packages which can be expected to exist.
2)<nobr> <wbr></nobr>...There is no 2.
People think the LSB is supposed to solve #1, but it doesn't do a thing for that. Frankly, I'm not even sure what it's for or if anyone gives a damn what they're up to.
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Re:Features and all are nice but...
Posted by: Administrator on November 12, 2005 02:49 AMA lot of open source projects just get released as unprepared source code, leaving users the deal with all the dependancies and often don't even go through an optimization stage, expecting everyone else to buy a new computer again.
Windows software has dependancies too, but they know what libraries come with the operating system, and include the ones that don't. They've solved this problem and it's a relatively simple system.
1) They know what's in the system.
2) They include what isn't.
This is seperate from most OSS projects, which goes like this;
1) They have no idea system it'll be run on or what's in it. There is no set of packages which can be expected to exist.
2)<nobr> <wbr></nobr>...There is no 2.
People think the LSB is supposed to solve #1, but it doesn't do a thing for that. Frankly, I'm not even sure what it's for or if anyone gives a damn what they're up to.
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