Cross-platform packaging facility OpenPKG 2.2 released

Submitted by Ralf S. Engelschall 2004-10-20 In the News 2 Comments

The OpenPKG project
released
version 2.2 of their unique RPM-based cross-platform Unix software
packaging facility. OpenPKG 2.2 consists of 528 selected (from a pool of 800) packages, all carefully
packaged for easy deployment on 18 different Unix platforms. Focusing on portability and isolation, OpenPKG 2.2 places greater emphasis on reducing underlying Unix system requirements.

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2 Comments

2004-10-21 9:54 pm

Anonymous
This project sounds good so far. I like the large number of Unix-alikes they support. Now if they supported Cygwin as well I would be really impressed (and able to use this).
2004-10-22 5:03 am

Anonymous
Well, what is needed is an easy availability. In Debian there is no `openpkg’ package, so it is not immediate to use it.

But I’d like to thank the OpenPKG team for their efforts. `Balcanization’ of open source is its bigger enemy…