On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 11:38:56AM -1000, david wrote: > Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote: > > >reach even half of the intended audiences (look at the recent Slashdot > >coverage on the future of Linux installers which tells a sad story how > >autopackage, despite its arguably superior model never took off). > > Autopackage - arguably superior? Not in my experience. I use an > application that uses Autopackage. My first discovery was that > *autopackage simply didn't work.* After a couple of fixes, they got it > to work. Whoopee!! My reaction to that was "Why?" From my use, > autopackage didn't do anything more, or anything better, than the > existing Debian package managers already did ... Zero-install makes an interesting case for itself. <http://0install.net/> Best, Chris. ------------------- chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://mccormick.cx
