Am 11.09.2013 19:51, schrieb Dicebot:
On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 07:12:53 GMT, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On Wed, 04 Sep 2013 08:48:16 GMT, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
Installing binary files was/is on the agenda, but mostly just for application packages
I would say installing binary executables for tool/application packages is a must.
No way. You just can't do it properly without lot of efforts (infrastructure efforts, not development) and introducing yet another broken package manager is not good idea.
Leave this up to people who know and care about packaging.
There is one thing that should definitely be supported, though: Calling
compiled binaries of dependent packages while building another packages.
But of course this is not installation.
What I would like to support at some point, though, would be to
support (semi-)automatic generation of system packages to reduce the
amount of work needed to support different distributions. But I fear
that this will require quite a complex configuration system (and an
accompanying runtime API) due to all the OS specialties (mostly the
differences in the standard file system hierarchy).