To summarize this a bit, below is what I think what I heard so far.
Feel free to respond further, I'll move this over into the ticket
later once we have consensus.
Robin
- General preference to keep packages in individual repositories
hosted inside a new GitHub organization "zeek-packages".
- Management through a meta-package that lists lists all desired
packages as dependencies. The meta-package can version content by
pinning packages to blessed versions.
- Tie these meta-packages to the current Zeek releases. To take this a
bit further:
- I imagine this means that we'll have three meta-packages at any
point of time: "zeek-packages-current", "zeek-packages-lts", and
"zeek-package-devel". When a new release comes out, these rotate
through.
- People can install packages for older (now unsupported) Zeek
versions by picking a older version of the corresponding
meta-package.
- The Zeek distribution can either download the current version of
the meta package on install; or even just include the full
content somehow (also see "zkg" below).
- Testing
- Need to make tests standalone and less dependent on Zeek versions.
- Should make standard btest infrastructure available to tests
(e.g., Zeek's btest helpers, pcaps).
- Provide integration tests that execute across the full set of
"zeek-packages".
- Development
- Make it it easy to work multiple packages at once (e.g., to
update baseline; get all dependencies in place)
- Documentation
- Use Zeekygen to document the full content of a meta package at
once; can host either on docs.zeek.org or packages.zeek.org.
- Make it easy to autogen docs for individual packages (ideas:
GitHub Pages through Vlad's cookie-cutter; autogen on
packages.zeek.org)
- zkg:
- Distinguish standard/recommended packages from others.
- Could we add a way to "prime" zkg's package cache so that a Zeek
distribution could distribute a snapshot of "zeek-packages" for
direct use; but zkg would still pull in updates if online access
is available?
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