I’m not complaining, but I didn’t realize how much work it was. It makes me really respect the people who do it on a regular basis.
For example:
- You know how to use your software, but other people don’t. So you need to write documentation.
- You can just modify the source files, but it’s impractical for everyone to do that. So you need to add a config file.
- You can just drag the output files into place, but that’s impractical for everyone to do. So you need to package it.
- You trust yourself, but distro maintainers rightfully don’t. So you need to package your source code and configure the package to compile it.
- You will abide by your idea of how the software should be used, but other people might not. So you need to pick a license.
Sometimes I think there must be an easier way, but I can’t think of any. I guess it probably gets easier with experience.
I’ll be honest, I’d rather you just toss them on github with a short description and at the end put “fuck you, figure it out.”
That would at least give people like me a chance to benefit from your hard work. I promise I wouldn’t complain and the people that do complain aren’t worth responding to.
Even that’s mostly not of any value. Check this out: I built a keyboard attachment for phones (https://github.com/Dakkaron/Fairberry).
I got tons of responses of people who said, they would really like to buy it.
Well, I’m not selling them, but I put really detailed instructions up on how to build it.
Afaik, so far nobody even tried to make one, even though I had at least 100 replies from people who said they would buy one.