> > Back in the good old days there was official 1st-party support for Linux:
> This
> was/is a third party site.
Oh. I thought that EDB was *the* Postgres company like MySQL AB was *the* MySQL company. My mistake.
> and `apt` is always half-a-decade out-of-date
I misspoke. I meant the OS repos more than apt itself.
> As to Apt build scripts:
I was just using apt as an example. I don't actually want to deal with apt or .debs.
What I want to create (and provide) is a portable tarball that has most of all what it needs in the tarball and will
lookfor relevant libraries relative to itself. Something that Just Works™ *almost* anywhere (Ubuntu, Debian, RedHat,
Suse...maybe even Alpine).
Any idea how to do that?