[Info-vax] Software Distribution Strategies

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2016-09-05 14:50, Neil Rieck wrote:
> 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"

The Rosetta Stone for computer code?

Yeah - portage works on *both* Linux and BSD... Same can pretty much be 
said for the various BSD package managers.

And all that, of course, means pretty much nothing if we talk VMS. :-)

	Johnny