Haiku Gains Package Management Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Haiku Gains Package Management Support

Haiku OS, the open-source operating system inspired by BeOS, now has package management support...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTQ3Mjc

[XorEaxEax]

Yes this is great news, come next Beta it's time to install Haiku on bare metal instead of running in a VM. Good times ahead.

[AJenbo]

Did they decied to go with there own package format?

[jayrulez]

Did they decied to go with there own package format?

Whose package format were they supposed to go with?

[AJenbo]

Whose package format were they supposed to go with?

Red Hat, Debian, Arch, Ports, ebuild. Just to name a few that I am pretty sure are flexible enough to work out.

[jayrulez]

Red Hat, Debian, Arch, Ports, ebuild. Just to name a few that I am pretty sure are flexible enough to work out.

What would be the benefits of this?

[AJenbo]

What would be the benefits of this?

A proven format, colaboration, people know how to author them, others needs less infrastructure to support it.

[intellivision]

Did they decied to go with there own package format?

Yes, they've designed it from scratch since their own implementation would be under a permissive license and of a design that the developers can agree with.
It also forms part of the upgrade framework of Haiku, so there would have to be OS specific code for that function.