18 Nov
2010
18 Nov
'10
8:45 p.m.
Not sure what problem this would solve...
Mostly to help autogenerate the various files needed to create the package in different forms and keep them updated without manual intervention, and to specify the install steps in a generic way across systems. That's the part that I find most tedious about packaging stuff, and if you need to generate a large number of packages on different systems, having a consistent way of doing it is a big help.