Re: Discover Stacksmith - Live Demo - Package and Maintain your Custom Applications

On 9 Jun 2018, at 9:40, Philip Rhoades wrote:

> I realise there are people here have done their own containers etc but 
> I
> think this might be a _very_ nice way to allow people to get a QMail
> installation going quickly and easily in whatever environment they 
> prefer.

I'm not against containers (and this does look interesting), but I've 
gotten pretty far without needing containers for this sort of thing. 
Instead, I use a cross-platform Unix package manager to build binary 
packages for what I need, with the build options I need, on just about 
any Unix.

The package management system is called "pkgsrc". I happen to be the 
maintainer for the qmail package, and I'll be presenting my work at 
pkgsrcCon next month in Berlin: 
http://pkgsrc.org/pkgsrcCon/2018/#presentations

Anyone with an interest in package management challenges is welcome to 
register and attend pkgsrcCon. It's free, low-key, and informal: 
http://pkgsrc.org/pkgsrcCon/2018/#registration

- Amitai