Re: Autopackage @ LinuxTag in Berlin

LGTM

You might get questions about what a "bogus dependency" is, that's a
piece of autopackage specific jargon I never saw elsewhere.

Just generally, you'll probably get plenty of questions like "why does
this exist", "what problem does it solve" etc. I've found comparisons
between the current distro model and the iPhone App Store to be
helpful in the past. In many ways your average Debifedoruntux is much
like the iPhone -  closed experience in which it's possible to leave
the walled garden of the distro, but only if you're willing to resort
of weird unsupported hacks that tend to break in the face of OS
upgrades. But it's actually even worse, because Apple don't reserve
the right to silently modify your software in broken ways, or require
you to publish your source code like distros do. And distros don't
provide any kind of commercial market support. If you want to sell
software, you're on your own.

On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Jan Niklas Hasse <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for the feedback. Here's the new version:
>
> Autopackage is a free computer package management system aimed at
> making it simple to create a package that can be installed on all
> Linux distributions and have that package integrate well into the
> desktop environment. It is intended to be used for installing non-core
> applications such as word processors, web browsers, and personal
> computer games, rather than core libraries and applications.
>
> Its goal is to make it possible to create only one package for all
> kinds of Linux distribution to make software distribution easy for
> both developers and users. For example an Autopackage only needs one
> package for 32 bit and 64 bit machines. Furthermore binary
> compatibility issues are solved using Apbuild, a wrapper around GCC
> which makes it possible to solve bogus dependencies and different
> versions of glibc.
>
> Autopackage is a complementary system to a distribution's usual
> packaging system, such as RPM and deb. Since it's possible to install
> Autopackages into the home directory without root access it's more
> safe to install software from an untrusted source with an Autopackage
> rather then the package manager.
>
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