Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 13, 2007 08:27 PM
Klik is certainly an interesting project but it's just another third-party repository different to one provided by the distribution. It provides no solution to the problem: The issue is the attitude of many if not most Linux application project maintainers; their habit of throwing a source code package on some internet server, like other people throw away dirt.
Autopackage tries to provide a solution for application projects who work real hard to become killer applications for the Linux desktop. See, for example, the guys of the Inkscape project. Autopackage tries to make PC enthusiasts lives as simple as possible, encoraging them to tell others about great application available for Linux, and to spread them using burnt CDs that work independely of the Linux distribution.
With Klik, lethargic and careless project maintainers will just continue to hope for some third-party volunteer to provide Klik packages, just as they expect third-party volunteers to provide distribution packages.
There's just one alternative I've seen so far, and that's PBI for PC-BSD: There's a working <a href="http://www.pbidir.com/" title="pbidir.com">software directory</a pbidir.com>. Here's a <a href="http://docs.pcbsd.org/guide/chap4.1.html" title="pcbsd.org">tutorial to make PBIs</a pcbsd.org>
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Klik is not an alternative
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 13, 2007 08:27 PMAutopackage tries to provide a solution for application projects who work real hard to become killer applications for the Linux desktop. See, for example, the guys of the Inkscape project. Autopackage tries to make PC enthusiasts lives as simple as possible, encoraging them to tell others about great application available for Linux, and to spread them using burnt CDs that work independely of the Linux distribution.
With Klik, lethargic and careless project maintainers will just continue to hope for some third-party volunteer to provide Klik packages, just as they expect third-party volunteers to provide distribution packages.
There's just one alternative I've seen so far, and that's PBI for PC-BSD: There's a working <a href="http://www.pbidir.com/" title="pbidir.com">software directory</a pbidir.com>. Here's a <a href="http://docs.pcbsd.org/guide/chap4.1.html" title="pcbsd.org">tutorial to make PBIs</a pcbsd.org>
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