Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 13th Feb 2007 00:09 UTC, submitted by Dolores Parker
14 months ago, the Autopackage project was small and active, and members sounded optimistic about its success. Now, although the alternative installer project continues, progress has almost come to a halt. The #autopackage channel on irc.oftc.net sits vacant most days, the developer blogs cover almost anything except the project, and commits to the source code repository have become rare. Formally, the project is still alive, but the major contributors all agree that it is faltering. So what happened?
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2005-07-23
godsolete: What's this SLL hell you're on about?
Just about everything on my Linux box at home is dynamically linked - this is a big reason why you need a good package manager to resolve dependencies.
Personally, I feel like Autopackage didn't gain any traction because it's a solution in search of a problem. There already are plenty of good package managers and frontends. If people have trouble using them, it's not because Ubuntu provides a bad frontend to it, it's because they want it to be just like Windows. Autopackage didn't address that, which IMO is about the only real (albeit large) obstacle package managers face.