On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Jason van Zyl <ja...@tesla.io> wrote: > > 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.
Well, if installing Maven is really as easy as just unpacking a tarball, creating an RPM should not be hard. I don't know Maven at all but I would expect someone who does and who has some experience with (say) RHEL/CentOS should have little trouble packaging it, especially since I understand there's a plugin which aids in packaging build artifacts as RPMs. > 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. I understand. Thanks for explaining your reasoning. Jos > >> >> 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 > > > > -- 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
