@liw i really wish that the labor of packaging and integrating were more valued and _supported_ in the ecosystem as a whole. better tools would of course be a good thing, but what's really needed is just hard work and cooperation and, well, hard things are hard.
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I miss the days when I could install all the software I use as #Debian #deb packages, even if from a third party repository. -
Omg this list is hilarious https://www.threads.net/moderated_servers@liaizon how do i get on this list
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all software should get 2.2 versions or so.a couple major releases - the first one, and the one that adds all the stuff you didn't realize you'd really want when you were making the first one, and a couple bug fix passes to take off the cutting edges, ...@djsundog to step outside of the frame of this particular conceit a little, there are two kinds of program i particularly admire:
1. just a little guy
2. cherished object of intense decades-long focus what hath accreted much very careful thought about never fucking anybody up on the basis of having trusted your past decisions
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all software should get 2.2 versions or so.a couple major releases - the first one, and the one that adds all the stuff you didn't realize you'd really want when you were making the first one, and a couple bug fix passes to take off the cutting edges, ...@djsundog breaking changes? nope! just make a new software!
software too big to just make a new one? think again - you already fucked up. put it down and start over, pal.