On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 11:48:05PM +1100, Paul Dwerryhouse wrote:
Yup, me too. It gets worse, many of the build systems seem to go out of their way to make it difficult to package things; attempting to package anything that needs Maven or Gradle to build it is bordering on futile because of their irritating habit of downloading libraries while building.
yep. and every time there's a new npm-related disaster, i keep expecting that maybe web devs will realise that npm is a fundamentally flawed model for software distribution. nope. that is not the world we live in.
Never mind that the hodge-podge deployment system was a buggy piece of crap and, if we'd switched to rpms, replacing it would have been three lines of puppet:
package { "software_name": ensure => installed }
but that would just put annoying obstacles in their way when they need to deploy direct to production.
Fscking gem files: sometime, in the last fifteen years, I unpacked a gem (I think it was selenium-related), intending to figure out how to make a deb of it, and I found a full win32 binary of Firefox inside it. WTF.
what, no chrome? craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>