Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cme!libes From: libes@cme.nist.gov (Don Libes) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: Software installation opinions needed Message-ID: <6605@muffin.cme.nist.gov> Date: 19 Sep 90 20:26:31 GMT References: <25908@shamash.cdc.com> <1990Sep19.125944.6489@cs.utk.edu> Reply-To: libes@cme.nist.gov (Don Libes) Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology Lines: 12 There's a paper in the upcoming LISA conference, called "depot: A Framework for Sharing Software Installation Across Organizational and UNIX Platform Boundaries". It describes how we (NIST) addressed many of the problems discussed in this thread. If you want a copy of the paper (and can't wait for LISA), you can ping the author (klm@cme.nist.gov), although I believe it still has not completed its internal review prior to public release. If you are real nice or promise to critique it or something like that, he'll probably give out a "beta" copy. Don Libes libes@cme.nist.gov ...!uunet!cme-durer!libes