[colug-432] to present Chicory

[Rick Troth]

friends --

I've been using a scheme now called Chicory
<http://www.casita.net/chicory/> since ... a long time ago. (Years
before it even had a name.) Would love to present it at a COLUG meeting
and maybe get others to join in the party.

Chicory comes to mind because we acquired an Airbook for my wife and I
have naturally _begun tinkering_. One result of tinkering is that I have
added "Darwin-x86_64" to a growing body of ready-to-run packages. There
are more than a dozen other platforms (e.g., Linux-i386, Linux-s390,
FreeBSD-amd64). The packages are things like GnuPG, which I sometimes
get from distro/vendor but usually build from source "just because".
(Not as if I have time to actually vet the source each release, but
re-compile allows for that and takes control up a notch in any case.)

Does anyone use "brew" or "homebrew"? It's a popular Mac-centric scheme
that seems to be a little like Chicory (but more formal and has an
actual following). My friend and mentor Glenn, who has been a Mac
enthusiast for probably 15 years, described Brew to me in response to my
comments about Chicory. There is a LinuxBrew project with a much smaller
following than Mac Homebrew. The concept looks great, but some of the
requirements put me off a bit.

Chicory is easy: a master prefix (not unlike Homebrew), safe for any
package manager, based on sym-linkery, no particular language
requirement (shell scripts work, or anything else one might want to
use), flexible package residence.

Gettin close to summer, so maybe no COLUG meetings for a few months. (Or
is this topic even interesting?)

-- R; <><












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