Re: apt based package dist for guile?

[Paul Jarc]

address@hidden wrote:
> The one tempting thing about CPAN (and apt, here's where they meet)
> is the simple, unified build/install process -- either 'apt-get install foo'
> or CPAN's 'download / perl Makefile.PL / make / make install' process.

Perl's MakeMaker means that the build system for a Perl module is the
same as that of other Perl modules, but it's gratuitously different
from that of all other packages.  There's no reason that a package's
build system should be based on the fact that it happens to be an
extension of a particular scripting language.  It's better to stick
with an existing build system that people already know (e.g.,
autoconf, or whatever you would normally use for anything else).  It
makes sense to put together some rules (m4 macros for autoconf, or
whatever) that can be reused for all modules for a particular
scripting language, but there's no reason to stick the installing user
with a different interface.


paul