On Mar 19, 2012, at 4:14 PM, Jos Backus 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.
You're assuming it's easy to do but as an overall supported aspect of the project nothing is easy. Maybe easy for you, but not for us :-) Generating an RPM is one thing, supporting it and have it undergo the construction that RPM proponents might require like building it offline and running it under our normal gamut of tests is probably not easy. You're making an assumption that it lowers the bar, but I would argue that's for a much smaller segment of the user base then you might think -- I believe Windows users still make up the largest segment. So as I've argued in the past the value to the project overall versus the work to actually support creating an RPM is up for discussion. I don't believe it's worth the effort. I think the people that care about the RPM-based distributions already have RPMs you can use. If we make RPMs then I think we have to be fair and make other packages and that's not really our job and none of us are probably that interested or good at it or it would have been done already. Apparently none of us really care that much. I don't think you want us making these things. I think you want people who care and who are experts in those systems making the packages for those systems. If someone in the Fedora project is making a Maven RPM I think you can expect a higher level of quality there then you're going to get from us. > > 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 > Thanks, Jason ---------------------------------------------------------- Jason van Zyl Founder, Apache Maven http://twitter.com/jvanzyl --------------------------------------------------------- happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder ... -- Thoreau
