Of course another sort of distribution format that needs more attention
is applications that are written in Go. These are statically linked
binaries by default, and once written, they just run on any machine of
the same architecture where they were built. I once installed doctl, the
DigitalOcean control application, onto a 64-bit ARM-based Odroid N2
computer running ArchLinuxARM and then just copied the doctl binary and
my configuration to my ARM-based router running OpenWRT, and everything
worked as expected. Interestingly, the FreePascal compiler fpc gave me
the same result, but the program I wrote that worked was much smaller
and less complex. But having said all this, static linking is one fairly
good way to distribute portable applications without too much packaging
hassle.
~Kyle
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