I’m proud to announce that, at last, the package management branch has been merged into the main development line, aka master branch. The builds and nightly images from hrev46113 on will include the new feature.
I only notice now that I should probably have given Matt a heads-up upfront, since due to the somewhat changed build process the build bot will need an update. So there might be a bit of a delay until the first Haiku PM nightly images will hit the website. Sorry for that.
Onwards to beta 1.
I, like many I think, have been so excited to get package management in Haiku for quite some time.
I’m installing the latest nightly tonight, at the very least just to ensure that it still runs AWESOMELY on my desktop.
YMMV, there are still some kinks being worked out I believe. I suspect there will be some further tweaking over the coming weeks.
Good. I’m always sad when the latest nightlies work perfectly, because then I don’t get to work on bug reporting with the Haiku developers. (I’m serious, they’re super cool and easy to work with)
Edited 2013-10-01 19:46 UTC
Congrats to the Haiku guys. I have been looking forward to this for a long time.
It’s good to hear an encouraging bit of news – especially about an alternative operating system.
This sounds like a major milestone reached on the path towards a beta release.
I hope this attracts the attention of talented would-be application developers. Many of the applications available are still from the BeOS era. Although one does not fixing what is not broken (yet), it would be nice to see something fresh.
As an oldtimer BeOS user (wow, imagine that), i am saddened to see that the very CONCEPT of package managers are even needed in Haiku. This OS was supposed to become something better than another *nix-like system, but the developer attitudes of the open source world took over.
Imagine that.
It frustrates me when people claim that Haiku doesn’t need to deal with modern software problems, and it can somehow remain in the past while every other OS in existence progresses forward.
Look around – package management is a must now. Every operating system has some form of it.
The days of running software installers and manually dealing with dependencies by hand are long gone now.
Unless Haiku intends to provide every application a user must need, and not require any 3rd party software to make it usable, it cannot survive without this.
I doubt if the 4 or 5 users of haiku care if it is modern, they certainly don’t care about it looking nice – man is it ugly with a capital U
There are more than five Haiku users.
It’s true that Haiku users don’t need package management, but, as with all software, anything that makes Haiku easier to use is better.
I think Haiku looks fantastic, but who cares? More importantly, the user interface gets out of my way and lets me do what I want to use my computer for in a quick and efficient manner.
Good to see them kicking . I really wish they succeeded
Minimalist, maybe. But not ugly IMHO. Regardless I like it. Clean and easy….
I wish Haiku to succeed.
haiku is making good progress, but my concerns are that if the trend goes like this the traditional laptops are going to become more like tablets. (I’m also today using a bluetooth keyboard for my ultrabook, so why would i not use a tablet with such a bluetooth keyboard if needed). Once the tablet makes more advances, and also handwriting becomes better on tablets, it can happen that the traditional laptops could start to be not that popular. (not to speak about the missing port to arm, since most tablets are running on arm).
The biggest problem of haiku is perhaps that it has not chrome running on it, and is very very unlikely that it will be ever ported (and maintained).
speech recognition and google now on the desktop might also become useful and more popular, and haiku again will not be able to benefit from google chrome,etc….
Let’s see what the future brings… but at least it is nice to see an operating system that is somehow a little different to the others, coming up with own solutions.