Re: Hobbyware WinCrap 11 strikes again

On 15 Feb 2025 11:27:36 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:

Nobody want to install something from source anymore.

That’s why most distros offer prebuilt binaries.

If a developer offers his software for everyone he has to provide a way
to install a working binary with it.

Nope. Just leave the building and packaging to the distro maintainers.
That’s something they know how to do.

The downside is that each SnapImage/FlatApp/whatever has to carry
around all its dependencies with it,

 
On a modern system, it's not an issue anymore.

The idea that developers, particularly proprietary developers, can do
a better job of keeping these dependencies up to date than the distro
maintainers (whose job it is to do just that), just seems laughable.