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Date:      Sat, 10 Apr 2010 23:59:34 -0500
From:      Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Bruce Simpson <bms@incunabulum.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ports and PBIs
Message-ID:  <1270961974.13132.41.camel@balrog.2hip.net>
In-Reply-To: <4BC088D3.3010908@incunabulum.net>
References:  <4BBFD502.1010507@elischer.org> <4BC088D3.3010908@incunabulum.net>

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On Sat, 2010-04-10 at 15:18 +0100, Bruce Simpson wrote:
> On 04/10/10 02:31, Julian Elischer wrote:
> >
> > Alfred Perlstein , Matt at ix systems Kris (Mr PBI), some
> > others and I, felt that these ideas seemed to make some sense
> > and so I put them here for comment.
> 
> Please do. Someone has to do something about deployment.
> 
> For what it's worth, I've tripped over the garden rake on the ground, 
> that is 'unsatisfied dependency' one too many times in commercial work.
> 
> If PBIs can address this, even for FreeBSD's embedded and server use 
> cases, they will likely be well recieved.

If I understood the PBI construct correctly... How is this really that
different than just producing static binaries?  I mean, as I understood
it, your bundling the binary and all of it's required libraries into a
private directory tree and then playing linker games.

robert.

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Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org>
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