> Von: Eric Evans [mailto:eev...@acunu.com] > Gesendet: Dienstag, 29. November 2011 01:55 > An: Bryan Duxbury > Cc: dev@thrift.apache.org; Jake Farrell > Betreff: Re: Thrift debain/ubuntu packages > > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Bryan Duxbury <br...@rapleaf.com> > wrote: > > Is there some way that we can combine our efforts? I'd love it if the > > work Eric does can become part of the stuff Thrift uses to publish > > releases. Is this feasible? Me too ;-)
> > On my end, I would need the build to create distinct artifacts for each of the > components (compiler and each lib). This also implies that there would need > to be packaging source (think debian/) for each, instead of just the one top- > level. Is this really required? Debian allows to have multiple files per target package within the debian folder. An additional folder per language will end up in duplicate definitions and more work to update etc. I prefer on folder as we have today => low maintenance effort > > The reason for this is that the whole thing covers too many disciplines to > have a single person (at least this person) maintaining it all throughout a > Debian release life-cycle. The people creating the Debian packages would anyway become familiar with the thrift source tree. And probably use the mailing list here. The separation of build and install files per language already simplifies the management of the Debian packages within one debian folder. > > I would still need to maintain a fork because the packaging and upstream > source are not expected to move in lock-step (i.e. there can be many > package releases for each upstream version), but they could be kept closely > synced. I will help you to keep your modifications as small as possible and try to bring in all changes into the Thrift source. For many languages people use language specific package formats. Beside of the thrift-compiler package, what languages do people really need as a Debian package? > > > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Eric Evans <eev...@apache.org> wrote: > >> > >> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Jake Farrell <jfarr...@apache.org> > wrote: > >> > I have been looking into trying to get the thrift compiler and libs > >> > into debian/ubuntu packages to help make it easier for people to > >> > install and start using thrift. Eric Evans, a Cassandra committer, > >> > has all ready started this as a sub project contained within > >> > github. He syncs with our code base and then runs scripts against > >> > it to create separate packages for the compiler, python and java to > >> > package. I've asked Eric to not submit his intent to package to > >> > debian so that we can come up with one unified way to handle all > >> > the packaging and add this into our release process moving forward. > >> > >> The ITPs are already submitted: > >> > >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=648451 > >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=648452 > >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=648453 > >> > >> If there is consensus within the Thrift project that I not move > >> forward, I will honor that and not upload to Debian (but that's me, I > >> can't promise the next person won't come along and upload what they > >> want). > >> > >> If there is a credible plan for taking over these ITPs in order to do > >> it according to your own preferences, then I will step aside and > >> assign these ITPs to you. > >> > >> Otherwise I plan to move forward. > >> > >> > We will also need to find a debian mentor or sponsor until we can > >> > publish these artifacts on our own. > >> > >> -- > >> Eric Evans > >> eev...@apache.org > > > > > > > > -- > Eric Evans > Acunu | http://www.acunu.com | @acunu >
