GNU Guix 0.8 released
Package management is probably, today, a very well defined problem. Isn't it time to solve this once and for all? Or are we forever doomed to have multiple package managers for the dot product of [operating system]X[development platform]?<p>It itches me that php has pear and composer, node has npm, ruby has gems and python has pip. It itches that deb and rpm solve the exact same problem, not to mention all the other smaller package formats/managers like pacman, yaourt or portage. It looks as pretty obvious that it is the same problem, albeit attacked via some different angles (source build versus binary distribution notably).<p>It even looks like it could be cross-platform, solving in one simple swoop at least unix systems (namely linux along with the BSDs) and, in a dream world, non-unix systems (windows, notably).<p>Daydreaming, yes. The status quo is too well established. But it justifies my jaded look regarding Guix: Late comer to a party that is already stale and over.