On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Joe Brockmeier <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 6, 2012, at 02:19 PM, Chip Childers wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Looking at previous CloudStack releases on sourceforge, I see that the >> "binary" distributions are tar.gz rpm/deb packages for RHEL and >> Ubuntu. I've looked at other Apache projects, and I see that they >> usually include the built jar files as their "binary" release >> artifacts. >> >> So my question for everyone is, what specifically do you think we >> should be distributing as an RC (and eventually as a release)? Do we >> want to do a set of the jar files in a tar.gz archive? Do we want to >> do RPM and DEV packages? Do we want both? > > How useful are a set of .jar packages in a tarball? > > Ideally, we can provide something that lets people get set up in as few > steps as possible.
Agreed - I was raising the question, but I don't think it's needed or useful. >> If we do the RPM and DEB packages, what OS should we be building on for >> each? > > At a minimum, the latest RHEL/CentOS and Ubuntu LTS. OK - So should we agree specifically on building on CentOS 6.3 and Ubuntu 12.04? > (Long term we need to focus on being included with the distros, but > that's a different discussion.) > >> I know these questions might be obvious to some people, but I wanted >> to get a clear consensus from the list. > > Thanks! > -- > Joe Brockmeier > [email protected] > Twitter: @jzb > http://www.dissociatedpress.net/ >
