Hi Kralj,
thanks for your efforts on packaging BaseX for Linux. Very appreciated!
You might have already seen that we did some packaging for Debian GNU/Linux
[1], but it is currently not very up-to-date. Would you be interested in
revising and adopting the process? Would be of great help :-)
Cheers,
Alex
[1] https://github.com/BaseXdb/basex-dist/tree/master/linux
> On 16. Sep 2020, at 13:06, [email protected] wrote:
>
> Dear Christian,
>
> I recommend this style for now as the default binary package
> for GNU/Linux operating systems. It would also work well for BSD-derived
> operating systems. You probably weren't asking about Android, but since
> that also uses Linux, I note that I don't know whether this is how one
> installs software on Android.
>
> I propose three alternative routines for preparing the package.
>
> 1. We can use the previously linked (and now attached) "build" file
> at the end of the build process. It relies on the basex zip package
> and on some Unix-style utilities. I am happy to be the one to run it.
> 2. I can assist a BaseX developer in rewriting my packaging utility with
> maven and Java in a way that will run on Windows. It would still
> be run at the end of the build process, after the zip file.
> 3. If someone documents how to build BaseX with command-line utilities,
> that is, without Eclipse, I will look into packaging the whole build
> process for Unix-like operating systems.
>
> Option three is best. It is best because only this option produces
> a source package that can be built on Unix-like operating systems
> in a conventional way.
>
> Options one and two are still good because they at least produce
> a convenient binary package.
>
> Please receive my sincere salutations.
> Kralj Karlo
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