0install Reaches 2.0 61
tal197 writes "Zero Install, the decentralized cross-platform software installation system, announced 0install 2.0 today after 2 years in development. 0install allows authors to publish directly from their own web-sites, while supporting familiar features such as shared libraries, automatic updates, dependency handling and digital signatures. With more than one thousand packages now available, is this finally a viable platform?"
Re:No. (Score:4, Insightful)
I don't think it is designed to be the one-repository-to-rule-them-all, debian style. In fact I think it is partly a reaction to the fact that that model doesn't work well in many cases.
Re:Slashvertisement? (Score:4, Insightful)
No; 0install isn't a commercial project.
You know you can advertise a non-commercial project, right?
Interesting technology, needs PR (Score:3, Insightful)
The technology is interesting. It's fully decentralized, works even on Windows, offers Mac-style drag and drop images, uses a full SAT solver for dependency resolution...
What it needs is better marketing.