On 16-05-31 06:32 PM, Charles MacDonald wrote: > On 16-05-31 08:47 AM, Stephen M. Webb wrote: > Then there's the deb vs. rpm dichotomy, and we will not > > Is packaging really even a worry when developing? > > the programmer will just be doing "make install" until they are happy with > the code, and then they can just use a tool > to build the RPM and the DEB to distribute their creation.
That's great: download the sources for GNU C and then "make install" using your Linux dev environment to get your Linux dev environment up and running. Oh, wait, we're trying to set up a Linux dev environment, right? That was the point? The package management system in use is paramount in communicating the instructions for installing the packages used for a Linux dev environment. Few professionals developers even do "make install" any more. It's 2016. Deploying a Docker instance onto a headless server? Sideloading onto a phone? Using an IDE like QtCreator? Those are 21st-century development tasks. -- Stephen M. Webb <stephen.w...@bregmasoft.ca> _______________________________________________ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux
