On: Opensourcing the Universal Package Manager

[pjmlp]

Right should I package it as deb, RPM, tgz, deploy, p5i, pkg, msi, msix, appx, apk, aar, ipa, ISMP or do you have any other favourite OS package format in mind?

As fun game you can try to map those package formats to their respective OSes.

[archi42 → pjmlp]

To be fair, isn't deb/apt already open source? If you don't know it, check out the "competing standards" xkcd.

If I was a FOSS dev, I'd say "screw it; just let people pull the git and package it however their distribution wants it".

[roblabla → archi42]

I mean, for 99% of the packages in most distribs, that’s how it works. Someone makes a cool binary, someone else packages it up and submits it to their favorite distro’s package manager.

[pjmlp → archi42]

Not every company wants to deliver open source packages, nor everyone uses git.

[eeZah7Ux → pjmlp]

No, you only package what you need.