Amen to this. I have friends who are dyed-in-the-wool piss-poor VB-only developers, who happily acknowledge that they don't really know very much at all about software engineering.
But when they see what I have to go through to figure out how to get my Python packaged up for deployment, they simply laugh at us. And rightly so.
It's clearly a difficult and nuanced problem, but even so - we're doing it wrong.
I don't know how to do it right. Does anyone currently claim to?
"I don't know how to do it right. Does anyone currently claim to?" I think there are a handful of people who do it right. Perhaps in the same sense as there are a handful of people who understand the linux kernal development.
I'm sure the tools are good enough. They just need to mature on a higher level. I'm sure dpkg was a pain before apt and look where we're at now with Synaptic.
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Amen to this. I have friends who are dyed-in-the-wool piss-poor VB-only developers, who happily acknowledge that they don't really know very much at all about software engineering.
But when they see what I have to go through to figure out how to get my Python packaged up for deployment, they simply laugh at us. And rightly so.
It's clearly a difficult and nuanced problem, but even so - we're doing it wrong.
I don't know how to do it right. Does anyone currently claim to?
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"I don't know how to do it right. Does anyone currently claim to?"
I think there are a handful of people who do it right. Perhaps in the same sense as there are a handful of people who understand the linux kernal development.
I'm sure the tools are good enough. They just need to mature on a higher level. I'm sure dpkg was a pain before apt and look where we're at now with Synaptic.