The npm ecosystem is massive, but it's the only PL packaging tool I'm aware of that has a for-profit company backing it. As a result, it has several full-time devs.
Perhaps other PLs would benefit from a similar setup?
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I've written difftastic packaging instructions: https://difftastic.wilfred.me.uk/packaging_difftastic.html
The different distros have taken different approaches, so I'm trying to help with common gotchas — don't forget the man page!
Feedback welcome, especially if you've ever packaged something 🙂
I really like the MELPA model of packaging directly from git. It solves the problem of forgetting to release something -- just merge a PR and you're done.
It also makes version number bumps much less important.
I really like the MELPA model of packaging directly from git. It solves the problem of forgetting to release something -- just merge a PR and you're done.
It also makes version number bumps much less important.
You could go even further in a statically typed language and also figure out when breaking changes occur.