Okay, so this is a long-awaited follow-up to my first post on the topic of Debian Perl Packaging. Some of you might note I was pretty extreme in the first post, which is partially because people only really ever respond to extremes when they’re new to things. When you first begin programming, the advice you [...]
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Debian Perl Packaging: Where I Lied
Posted in Computer Science, Software Engineering, tagged Best Practices, Computer Science, CPAN, Debian, Debian Packaging, Perl, Standards, Support, System Administration, User Experience on 15 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Experiences With Debian and Kubuntu
Posted in Computer Science, Customer Relationships, User Friendliness, tagged Best Practices, Debian, Engineering, Google Summer of Code, KDE, Support, User Experience on 16 June 2009 | 14 Comments »
For my Google Summer of Code project, I have been working with PerlQt4 bindings, which requires that I have Qt4 installed. While this is technically possible under a Win32 environment. Lots of people in the free software community vehemently oppose Windows, but while it has its flaws, I think overall the hardware support is still [...]
Debian Perl Packaging
Posted in Computer Science, Software Engineering, tagged Best Practices, Computer Science, CPAN, Debian, Debian Packaging, Perl, Standards, Support, System Administration, User Experience on 12 June 2009 | 6 Comments »
If you are a Debian user, or a user of its derivatives, there is absolutely no need for you to create your own packages. None. Just don’t do it; it’s bad. Avoid it like the goto statement, mmkay?
