The Future of Autopackage?

[chopin1810]

Well... what ultimatly happens with open source and what makes it so good is that eventually, over time, certain software developers will come to be known as better and more reliable than others. This is happening right now: Firefox is becoming the standard open source web browser, GIMP the standard open source image manipulation suite, OpenOffice the standard open source office suite, etc. This is evolution in the software development, all made possible by giving away the source code for improval. Think about where open source started out: as a bunch of tiny projects all in their beta stage. But the better ones became more popular and are more widely used. Therefore over time the programs with better depandancy support will become more popular in the first place, erasing the ones with poor support. It's evolution! It's survival of the fittest! And it's true evolution because it can only get better, since it is uninfluenced by money: if Microsoft's profits go down, then they may decide to not spend time on more development to save money and end up releasing Windows in a poor beta stage. Or if they want more market share, so they mess something up to fool the user.
So I look forward to three or four years from now when open source and Linux have evolved to the point that we have some serious competition for Microsoft that can blow it away.

[a thing]

I think Autopackage will be used for those few packages that now you've to compile (there will still be repo-based software like yum and apt).