OStatic

What user of open source has not wrestled with software installation at one time or another? If you're not tracking down conflicts or hunting for the download site for the current version of something, you're chasing dependencies in a seemingly-endless chain. Perhaps this is a symptom of the decentralized and rapidly-moving nature of open source - or perhaps not. Cloudsmith (in seemingly-eternal beta) suggests that there might be a way to get past at least some of the installation pain points.