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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