Desenvolvedor | Mike Hearn |
Versão estável | 1.4.2[1] (24. May 2009) |
Sistema operacional | Linux |
Licença | open source |
Página oficial | autopackage.org (archived) |
Autopackage é um sistema de gerenciamento de pacotes para Linux, cujo objectivo é ser possível criar um pacote de software que possa ser directamente instalado em todas as distribuições de Linux.[2] O Autopackage já vem instalado no Super Ubuntu.[3]
What's a desktop Linux platform? Why do we need one? Essentially, software is easy to install on Windows and MacOS [...] because by depending on "Windows 2000 or above" developers get a huge chunk of functionality guaranteed to be present, and it's guaranteed to be stable. In contrast, on Linux you cannot depend on anything apart from the kernel and glibc.
If Hearn is correct, the real lesson of Autopackage is not how to improve software installation, but the difficulty -- perhaps the impossibility -- of large-scale changes in Linux architecture this late in its history. It's a sobering, disappointing conclusion to a project that once seemed so promising.