I support packages with the option to use dependencies in mobile OS :
- about Sailfish OS, I feel managing RPM packages is faster than than
DEB packages;
- current (2013) smartphones are fast (dual or quad core @ > 1,0 GHz,
fast flash memory, etc), equivalent to low cost net/notebooks some years
ago, so it is not a problem to have repositories with thousands of packages;
- one great advantage of GNU Linux mobile OS (Maemo, MeeGo, Mer/Nemo
Mobile, Sailfish, etc) is the availability of thousands of libraries
ported from desktop Linux developed, e.g., we can have a software with
GUI made with 500 QML lines of source code using a library (with 200,000
C/C++ lines of source code, developed after 15 years by thousands of
developers) as dependency;
- if some developer wants to include dependencies in its rpm package,
yes, it can, it has this freedom.
As I've read today, we can submit .rpm packages using dependencies
from Mer/Nemo Mobile repositories, only Jolla Harbour doesn't host
dependencies itself. So it is just a matter of the community support
Mer/Nemo Mobile to include desired libraries, tools, etc. And/or use
OpenRepos so each developer has its needed dependencies.
So let us start submitting our Sailfish softwares, sailors !
Best regards,
Roberto
Em 06-11-2013 18:28, Attila Csipa escreveu:
On 06-Nov-13 09:33, Marcin M. wrote:
And somehow Debian and Ubuntu and ... do well it with real depends...
Debian, Ubuntu (and the whole desktop Linux world) is a very different
setup from the classic appstore setup (so no orphaned packages/apps,
less packages, less metadata, less frequent updates/releases,
unlimited CPU/RAM/network). Ubuntu, with the limitation of apt (and
yes, I'm a Ubuntu user, and love apt-get-ing) sucked on Maemo once the
number of packages went to the thousands (and real stores are with app
numbers in the hundred-thousands). It took ages (and a boatload of
battery/CPU/flash) just to see if there is an update for something.
And I'm not saying this as a plug for RPM-based repositories, for an
appstore setup, they are almost as bad.
A dependency system can be really helpful. It's just that the
environment changed a bit since the '90s, so while you can implement
proof-of-concept level stores in an old-school Linux style packet
management (see the Maemo experience), it can hardly scale to the
proportions and use-cases modern appstores are aiming at.
Best regards,
Attila Csipa
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