PUBLIC MARKS from mbertier with tag packaging

f you want to distribute source and/or binary packages for Ubuntu or any other distribution using .deb packages, Falcon is the tool for you. Creating a simple repository takes almost no configuration, you can get started in a matter of minutes. But Falcon also allows you to support the more advanced functionality in APT, such as integrating your packages with the excellent app-install system or support for apt-file, allowing people to search for files in your repository without installing packages

Sparkle is a module that developers can stick in their Cocoa applications (five-step install!) to get instant self-update functionality. Your app will be able to update itself, not just check for new versions: it’ll read the update information from an appcast on your server, download, extract, install, restart, and even offer to show the users release notes before they decide if they want to update.

If you have root access to your machine, you can easily configure it to allow each user to have their own directory where Python packages can be installed and managed by EasyInstall.