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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RE[7]: Not enough demand.
by wannabe geek on Tue 13th Feb 2007 15:50
in reply to "RE[6]: Not enough demand."
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"One (albeit small) drawback of that is it sound like you have to compile everything. Could be kinda-slow when doing a big system-update? Maybe I'm wrong. "
Well, there are repos for packages as well as for recipes, and you can have local recipes (and packages, I think). There's a nice GUI frontend (called Manager) for the package installation and recipe compilation scripts. So, if there is no package for the app you want, there may be a recipe, and if not, you can make a recipe with the MakeRecipe script and the URL. Then you can easily contribute the recipe upstream 
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2006-06-03
Yeah. That sounds good. I like the Lighting reference too
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One (albeit small) drawback of that is it sound like you have to compile everything. Could be kinda-slow when doing a big system-update? Maybe I'm wrong.
Also, I still can't consider the idea of interpreted languages doing sys-level operations without a bit of an involuntary shudder, but that is just my prejudice showing.
If I get the time, I'll give it a try. Unfortunately, my servers are tied to Ubuntu, but I have a Linux virtual machine that could cope with it.