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Effort is beyond abilities of average ISVEffort is beyond abilities of average ISVPosted Jan 20, 2008 10:04 UTC (Sun) by NAR (subscriber, #1313)In reply to: Effort is beyond abilities of average ISV by tzafrir Parent article: Fedora developers on PackageKit I'm afraid, most people are not interested in security updates, especially if they can't install the damn thing in the first place. Currently the "Next->Next->Finish" type installer usually works better (for installing!) for casual users than installing some 3rd party linux package. Anyway, how many application can be really vulnerable to a libpng bug? The browser, the mailer, some mediaplayer? Most of them do get security updates, unless the user turned it off.
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Effort is beyond abilities of average ISV Posted Jan 20, 2008 12:59 UTC (Sun) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link] Again, we have those in Linux (e.g: klik). And they are not popular, for a good reason. next->next->next does not include the time it takes to: * Locate the software * Verify that it is not a trojan The mere fact that you have to ask the user questions is a usability bug. In Debian it was fixed long ago with debconf: a standard way to ask questions. With priority (so you can tell the installed package to only ask important questions, or ask all questions) and you can provide answers in advance.
Effort is beyond abilities of average ISV Posted Jan 22, 2008 13:19 UTC (Tue) by petebull (guest, #7857) [Link] And if they use a standalone installer, they have yet another application they have to look after to stay secure. If they put up with the burden to add the repository, verify the repository signing key and install it with the distributions package management system, the updates will come in like any other security patch. ISV packaging will lead to even more code duplication with libraries like libpng etc. IIRC openSUSEs One Click Install provides a way to the casual user to add repositories and install software with one click.
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