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.
Best,
Chris.
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