Jon_Don wrote:Coming into the APT repository will solve almost 80% of the Linux user.
Is it that hard?!
1) There is no "the APT" repository, instead linux distributions mostly are based on repositories and some of the distributions are using APT. You need to integrate Xampp into the repository of a distribution in order to install it properly and solving all dependencies. And as i already said, Ubuntu team has been asked to put Xampp into their repository, but they refused. Do you want to kill them or what will you do about that?
Of course Bitnami could put Xampp into their own APT repository, and Users may simply install Xampp from that APT repo, but actually that gains NOTHING, as it does not resolve any dependency, because it is not part of the Ubuntu repository. That is totally useless.
And even if you integrate Xampp into Ubuntu's repository, you cannot use that repository for Zorin for example. Zorin has its own repository, with different dependencies, so have to put Xampp also into Zorins repository, you cannot install Zorin programs from the Ubuntu repository. Same for mostly all other distributions, you have to integrate Xampp into THEIR repository as well.
2) Even if you succeed and can provide APT repositories including Xampp, that would BY FAR not help 80% of all linux users. As you can see on distrowatch, Ubuntu based installations using APT repositories are only a small minority. Already the two most installed distributions (MX Linux, Manjaro), which arent based on APT repos, are 5 times as many as Ubuntu installations. So even if you succeed to provide an APT based installation, you would offer it only to less than 20% linux users. How disappointing, isnt it?!
3) with the current "windows-like" setup, running an executable installation file, Bitnami reaches 100% linux users.