[indiana-discuss] Brief (blogged) thoughts on packaging

[Richard Elling]

Mario Goebbels wrote:
>> I agree, but it is a bug if you have to edit XML ;-)
> 
> Heh. Well, editable was more meant in the way that you can quickly write one yourself. For instance if you assembled a collection of (important) scripts, and want to distribute it, it may be easier to write up a couple of lines yourself than running it through a toolchain (currently, I have no clue how to create Solaris packages).

hmmm... digging through the cobwebs of my memory, I recall making a
makefile which would build a package for you.  Edit the name and administrivia,
make, and you get a package.  The hard part about making a package is not the
assembly of the package, it is the integration with the rest of the environment.

Note: it is very, very difficult to integrate with sparse or radically changing
environments.  As much as people may not like MS and Apple, they do a very good
job of providing a richly featured and stable base environment.
  -- richard