Re: pet hate: different versions of same app

I know what you're talking about.

But what really frustrates me is that for a few years now
I've been working on a solution to this problem: and it's
a solution that would work, if only I could just get peole
to *notice* it and start *using* it in their apps.

The program I'm talking about is located at http://boxenv.com
and is an Open Source project. This allows someone who
packages an app to package it in such a way that the locations
of files aren't hard-coded into the package, but instead
specified by preferences.

Though Boxenv has it's own native packaging format, it does
not *require* you to use that packaging format, as it works
very nicely with tarballs too.


Peter McCool wrote:

> Say I want to run Postgres 6.5 and 7: 6.5 for production apps and 7 for
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> Most distros of my acquaintance (RedHat, Debian, Slackware, Mandrake)
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> The old-skool approach of /usr/local/app lets you do this in a semi-sane
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> way. C'mon, my RH9 box has 1700 files in /usr/bin. Madness!
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> Most of the commercial Unices of my acquaintance have addressed this in
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> Peter
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