@HunterZ @aphyr I mean, none of this is your problem...

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@HunterZ @aphyr I mean, none of this is your problem as the software author. Your job is to be the upstream source. Responsibility for making software available starts with you, making it available as a source tarball to distro maintainers (and anyone else who wants it), who then make it available to system admins, who then make it available to users. If the users are their own system admins, and they can't install a package from source, that's a "them" problem.

Like 13 August at 19:46 | Wall-to-wall | Open on studio8502.ca

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Ben S.

@mos_8502 @aphyr so if it's a niche hobby project then there's no point bothering to support Linux, because it's not worth anyone's time to push through the friction of the package maintainer cathedral.

13 August at 20:08 | Open on mastodon.sdf.org

mos_8502 :verified:

@HunterZ @aphyr You can get most of the way there just publishing your package as a .deb and a .rpm. And I can't speak on Fedora, but getting packages into Debian isn't very hard. They don't even have to be free software.

13 August at 20:10 | Open on studio8502.ca

mos_8502 :verified:

@HunterZ @aphyr You could also do the "homebrew" thing and have a command line you can copy and paste to download and run a script that handles it all, but that is a touchy subject with some.

13 August at 20:11 | Open on studio8502.ca

Yuki 膤 ❄️ 🏳️‍⚧️

@mos_8502@studio8502.ca @HunterZ@mastodon.sdf.org @aphyr@woof.group you can also get away with statically compiling or shipping your app with every library needed to run your app, and targetting an old enough version of glibc, it usually does the trick

13 August at 20:18 | Open on groupe-tazor.com

Chartreuse

@mos_8502 @HunterZ @aphyr You don't even need to get the package into an official repo if you want, you can host your own with just your software or even just a .deb download on github or stuff.

13 August at 20:24 | Open on social.restless.systems