有不喜歡隨波逐流的朋友嗤之以鼻地狠批,讀村上春樹小說的,九成是為了趕潮流。
但如果因為趕潮流而令很多人會拿起一本書來讀,一定是一件好事多過壞事,至少我是這樣認為的。
I think I should write down one of my background views on what packagingsystems are for, and what jobs they do, because there are competing (orsomewhat clashing) visions about what is within their scope.
One view is that the job of a packaging system is more or less confinedto properly installing, removing, and upgrading packages. This need notexclude things like apt-get ; if you take a broad view of 'installingpackages', this can easily include fetching packages and dependenciesover the Internet.
As explained on Drupal.org today, Drupal 7.0 Alpha 1 has been released , and it incorporates (among other things) a revamped user interface, custom fields (CCK) in core, image handling in core, an update manager, and a ton of 'under the hood' improvements.
This is going to be the best Drupal release to date, for two reasons:
After having built out many themes for Drupal 6 (and a couple for Drupal 5), I'm going to start from scratch on a couple designs and build a theme in Drupal 7, which will be released sometime in 2010. I'll take you along my journey in this article.
Please note, this article is a work in progress , and I'll be updating it as I go. Hopefully, within a couple weeks, I'll have the article complete, and a

One of the very common things that sysadmins do when dealing with morethan one system is that we develop a common set of files that we slapon every system (or in large environments, on subsets of our systems).Sometimes this is done by hand, sometimes this is done with hand-builttools, and sometimes this is done with things like Cfengine or Puppet.
If you accept that packaging systems should be comprehensive , then packaging systems should also supportthis common need. Specifically, packaging systems should have the