Release Name: 0.0.3
Notes:
uh ok so roast beef is some kind of package manager that is for
bleeding-edge programs. so basically it does not have its own
repositories. instead it just will download source from the upstream
repository and will do all the necessary steps to install . you get
things that are as fresh as possible. i am talking about really fresh
like your eggs and milk.
roast beef saves you from having to look up the repository locations
for all the stuff you want to build from source. it also abstracts
away the differences in build processes. say you want the latest
version of such a package as gnu emacs. so you grab the source but you
know emacs is a little different from other packages and requires
"make bootstrap" in between the configure and make step. with
roastbeef all the complexity of such things is hidden from you. and if
you have a lot of stuff built from source you can keep them all up to
date with a single command.
the motivations behind this are made more clear in a blog post:
http://technomancy.us/106
== man why you even got to do a thing
Changes:
=== 0.0.1 / 2008-03-12
* 1 major enhancement
* Birthday!
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