> > Slightly off topic from the original post but why aren't more developers
> > using something like Autopackage(http://autopackage.org/) to make software
> > installation easier for users?
>
> Because they don't know about it, and/or don't want to learn a whole new
> way to do something they think they already know how to do. And as
> autopackage's home page says, it's not suitable for building a distro
> out of; only for add-on packages. And it doesn't (yet) integrate with
> the existing package manager of a given distibution.
Also there are lots of "revolutionary" build/installation/packaging
schemes out there, each one claiming to be the latest and greatest.
Nobody wants to spend all the time to convert their software to a new
system until it's shown that it's not going to shrivel up and
disappear.
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