Re: Plugin system like Firefox

Markus Wanner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Robert Haas wrote:
> > I can't speak for anyone else, but I much prefer packages that make
> > use of my operating system's package management system rather than
> > rolling their own. If I need a perl package that I can't get through
> > yum, I build my own RPMs rather than installing through CPAN.
>
> I very much agree to that (well, s/RPM/DEB/).
>
> But AFAIK we also need to provide packages for OSes without a package
> management system. Windows being the most popular such OS.
>
> Which probably means we should provide something that can work on its
> own *or* through another package management system (very much like CPAN
> and others, again).

We don't get economies of scale without an OS-agnostic way of installing
packages. I realize many prefer their OS-native packaging system, but
that isn't the target audience of a packaging system that will increase
adoption.

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