On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 21:20 +0100, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: > Yeah, it's a PITA all right. You could download a project, and it > could list a dozen library dependencies in a text file. So now you > have to spend hours searching, downloading, reading manuals and > compiling libraries (not to mention having to download any extra > dependencies for those libs as well, and any tools used in the > building process), and finally configuring the app to use the compiled > libraries. And when the libs won't compile.. bleh! It's typical for > many open-source C apps that I've tried compiling.
But isn't this exactly what Apt and Yum are for? I suspect the core to the problem is that Windows and Mac OS X are not built around a dependency management system whereas most Linux distributions are. Of course there is MacPorts and Fink for Mac OS X, but Apple have no interest in them. > On 12/13/10, Ary Borenszweig <a...@esperanto.org.ar> wrote: > > Deploying a Ruby on Rails 2 application is like this: > > > > git clone ... (or hg pull ... or whatever you use) > > rake gems:install (this installs all the libraries your project depend on) > > rake db:create > > rake db:migrate > > rake db:seed > > > > Very, very convenient. Otherwise you have to download the jars in you > > server, or > > commit them to your source control which is pretty heavy. > > > > In D, Java, C#, etc., it's a PITA, specially when your app depends on a > > specific > > version of a library. > > -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@russel.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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