Title :
Package Management Systems
Author :
Spinellis, Diomidis
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Manage. Sci. & Technol., Athens Univ. of Econ. & Bus., Athens, Greece
Abstract :
A package management system organizes and simplifies the installation and maintenance of software by standardizing and organizing the production and consumption of software collections. As a software developer, you can benefit from package managers in two ways: through a rich and stable development environment and through friction-free reuse. Promisingly, the structure that package managers bring both to the tools we use in our development process and the libraries we reuse in our products ties nicely with the recent move emphasizing DevOps (development operations) as an integration between software development and IT operations.
Keywords :
software maintenance; software packages; development operations; package management system; package manager; software collection; software development process; software installation; software maintenance; Maintenance engineering; Product management; Software libraries; Software reusability; DevOps; module dependencies; package management system; shared library; software reuse;
Journal_Title :
Software, IEEE