Distributions

Posted Feb 3, 2025 17:26 UTC (Mon) by jond (subscriber, #37669)
In reply to: Distributions by Wol
Parent article: New horizons for Julia

And that's how it SHOULDN'T be. Would you want your car serviced at the local garage by an unsupervised apprentice?

I don’t like this analogy because it presumes there is only one field of expertise that matters. I fully accept that the developers of a program are the experts in that domain; but packaging itself (and distribution specific facets) are another relevant domain entirely, which upstream developers rarely are expert in. I agree there’s a problem here. But the way you’ve presented it I think misses important nuances.