Comment by misnome
4 months ago
Because it doesn’t need you to delve deep into the build system of every dependency and application you ever want to package?
4 months ago
Because it doesn’t need you to delve deep into the build system of every dependency and application you ever want to package?
>> It let people deploy consistent version of their software
Surprisingly "my software" depends on a lot of other stuff. Python, Ruby, PHP, JS, etc all need tens to hundreds of native libraries that have to be deployed.
>> …or download outside software.
I've worked on software that linked to ffmpeg libs.
Good luck making _that_ static.