Comment by Levitating
19 hours ago
I want to agree with you, but as someone who regularly packages software for multiple distributions I really would prefer people using autoconf.
Software with custom configure scripts are especially dreaded amongst packagers.
Why, again, software in the Linux world has to be packaged for multiple distributions? On the Windows side, if you make installer for Windows 7, it will still work on Windows 11. And to the boot, you don't have to go through some Microsoft-approved package distibution platform and its approval process: you can, of course, but you don't have to, you can distribute your software by yourself.
> Why, again, software in the Linux world has to be packaged for multiple distributions?
Because a different distribution is a different operating system. Of course, not all distributions are completely different and you don't necessarily need to make a package for any particular distribution at all. Loads of software runs just fine being extracted into a directory somewhere. That said, you absolutely can use packages for older versions of a distribution in later versions of the same distribution in many cases, same as with Windows.
> And to the boot, you don't have to go through some Microsoft-approved package distribution platform and its approval process: you can, of course, but you don't have to, you can distribute your software by yourself.
This is the same with any Linux distribution I've ever used. It would be a lot of work for a Linux distribution to force you to use some approved distribution platform even if it wanted to.