[Info-vax] DECUServe is a Hobbyist Chapter

[David Wade]

On 04/07/2020 21:49, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Stephen Hoffman  <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
>> On 2020-07-04 14:24:09 +0000, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply said:
>>
>>> In article <rdq39n$f4f$1 at panix2.panix.com>, kludge at panix.com (Scott
>>> Dorsey) writes:
>>>> This is what many linux dialects do.  It's possible to do this easily
>>>> with package management; you can install the parts of the system that
>>>> you want without the parts you don't want without having to manually
>>>> figure out  dependencies.  A day will come when VMS has integrated
>>>> package management, and I suspect it will happen before Windows ever
>>>> does.
>>
>> Chocolatey is probably the best available Microsoft Windows package
>> manager. Not that I use Windows.
> 
> Right, but it is not integrated, and the OS is not modularized and
> installed with the package manager.  Architecturally it probably could
> not be.
> 
>> Fortran itself is starting to sprout a package manager with fpm, too:
>> https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm
> 
> This is a disaster waiting to happen.  Notice how Python has turned into
> a hellish mass of library dependencies that are constantly changing?

I am still in shock over this. It took longer to figure out dependancies 
that it did to build hardware. Error message says install python3-ini 
when you need python3.8-ini. yuk.

> --scott
> 
> 

Dave