On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Jos Backus <j...@catnook.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Jason van Zyl <ja...@tesla.io> wrote: >>> I think if some 3rd party wants to provide an RPM have at it. I don't think >>> this is something we want to create or support. >> [snip] >> >> Any reason why not, especially when it's easy to do so? It lowers the >> bar for users to deploy Maven. > > > 1) Easy is always in the eye of the proposer. If you want to supply a > patch to the build of maven that builds an RPM that you think is > useful, it might well get committed. Whether the results of running it > end up on dist would be the output of more discussion.
Fair enough, but I figured the Maven people would be interested in building this as a service to their user base. Guess not. > 2) I find it hard to take seriously the proposition that 'download, > untar, run' is a high enough bar to fit anything interesting under it. Package management (among other benefits) makes it so you don't have to do something special/different for each package to be installed/upgraded on a machine. But never mind, it's clear that you are not interested in helping people this way. Jos -- Jos Backus jos at catnook.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
