Re:How to Write Portable C Without Complicating Your Build
by mschuster91 on Friday March 31, 2017 @12:45PM
(#14005576)
autotools sucks for developers, but as a user I highly value "make uninstall".
Every time I see software without a make uninstall, I have to manually create a textfile with the stuff the application installed so I can do a clean upgrade... it sucks.
Hell, most Windows software ships (mostly crappy) uninstallers, and most OS X software can be uninstalled by dragging the app folder into the Trash, but there are loads of .nix programs without uninstall support? What the f..k?
Oh, and .nix software using standard build systems has another advantage: it's usually trivial to package them in .deb/.rpm if you want to distribute e.g. custom ffmpeg/vlc builds on a fleet of servers.
Every time I see software without a make uninstall, I have to manually create a textfile with the stuff the application installed so I can do a clean upgrade... it sucks.
Hell, most Windows software ships (mostly crappy) uninstallers, and most OS X software can be uninstalled by dragging the app folder into the Trash, but there are loads of .nix programs without uninstall support? What the f..k?
Oh, and .nix software using standard build systems has another advantage: it's usually trivial to package them in .deb/.rpm if you want to distribute e.g. custom ffmpeg/vlc builds on a fleet of servers.