App Bundles

[Graeme Gill]

Brian J. Tarricone wrote:

> That, plus the fact that the usage model for most Linux distros pushes
> users to prefer installing apps via their package manager, tends to make
> app authors hesitant to building or distributing Linux binaries at all.
>  Instead they rely on distro package maintainers to pick up their app
> and package it.  While this works decently well, there's often a lag,
> especially for less popular apps.

The distro model certainly doesn't work for everybody. Too often distro's
fiddle with the application and break the package. Since they don't/can't
test it, they don't notice the problem, and the author of the package then gets
a lot of the grief. The distro model doesn't work for commercial applications
either, discouraging many serious applications from supporting Linux. So
more support for independent application installation would certainly be a
good thing.

Graeme Gill.