[Info-vax] Software Distribution Strategies (was: Re: OT: Linux on IA64 and-or Alpha)

[Neil Rieck]

The Open Source community has always maintained a (more) open mind to developing software tools targeted at generating production software.

For client-server stuff anyone who has ever used jQuery, Bootstrap, Brackets, or AngularJS knows what I am talking about. (all free of charge by the way)

For larger projects, tools like "CVS, Git, and Subversion" spring to mind but, truth be told, they always seemed clunky to me (perhaps I wasn't using them properly or perhaps I hadn't got the religion). But the fact that there are multiple tools "might" be an indication there is no good single tool.
 
So when I recently learn that Gentoo is based upon "Portage"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portage_(software)
I thought to myself "someone has invented a Rosetta Stone for computer code"
 
Neil Rieck
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/docs/dark_age.html