On 02/08/2013 04:56 AM, Alex Huang wrote:
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From: Alex Huang [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2013 7:46 PM
To: David Nalley
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [DISCUSS] Binary downloads....
Because providing 'binaries' isn't necessarily problematic, but making
yum and apt repos work in the ASF mirror system seems a bit more of an
issue. Plus, Wido stepped up to do the work, no one else has offered
any other alternatives.
David,
I apologize if this has all been discussed. And this is off-topic from
packaging
so I changed the subject.
RPMs don't necessarily have to be from yum repo right? Why can't it just be
downloaded from the page along with the source package? Don't get me
wrong. Very grateful to Wido for stepping up to help. Not questioning that.
It's just that when I visit the download page, it just has a bunch of rpms but
nothing to offer in terms of directions on what to do to install. It makes it
difficult for new users to get started. What can we do in that area to make it
easier?
The reason I bring this up is that CloudStack is a mostly java based web app.
It's not a given that someone who understands java/j2ee understands linux and
yum/apt repos. For them it is somewhat difficult and we should lower that bar.
That's where I'm coming from on this.
I do understand packaging into rpms and debs. There's lots of great benefits
and of course is a prerequisite to getting into distros but I look forward to
the day where we just have a few wars zipped up in tar.gz or .zip and people
just download them and deploy them as they would any webapp.
That would be a completely different way of packaging.
Right now we expect people to read the docs on how to install from the
repo, we even point to the docs: "Instructions for using these community
provided repositories can be found in the Configure package repository
section of the Installation Guide."
I'm not sure what we should do to package the WAR and JAR files in a
nice way?
Wido
--Alex
