On Building 30K Debian Packages

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  • spack

    A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.

    True: there is no embedded metadata (à la Dublin Core) in the source code or in/on Github that tells you about how to compile the source code. There is still a human-involved step in looking at the source code, even if it is in a build infrastructure (like Ports or Homebrew) it still had to be put there by a human.

    The closest thing for a source hub and automated build system that is probably CPAN and the like (PIP, CRAN).

    Another build infrastructure, focused more in the HPC niche, is Spack:

    * https://spack.io

    * https://spack-tutorial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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