Dennis, We start working on distro packaging as soon as the official tarbal is cut. Unfortunately, sometimes certain build issues pop up that delay the release of packages. Currently the following bug is halting RPM packaging:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/drizzle/+bug/735850 Unfortunately I am not familiar with the internals enough to know exactly how to resolve this issue... so I am at the liberty of everyone else and waiting for a patch I can apply to the current tarbal allowing me to complete the build. --- derks On Mar 18, 2011, at 11:10 AM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > Hi, > congratulations for the GA release! I guess that means I no longer have any > excuse to not look into drizzle more deeply :) > Are there plans to update rpm.drizzle.org with a 7-rel directory or something > like that? Right now it doesn't seem to carry RPMs for the GA release. > > Regards, > Dennis > > On 03/16/2011 08:00 AM, Planet Drizzle wrote: >> >> Stewart Smith: Drizzle7 >> <http://www.flamingspork.com/blog/2011/03/16/drizzle7/> >> >> We’ve released Drizzle7 >> <http://blog.drizzle.org/2011/03/15/drizzle-2011-03-12-ga-tarball-has-been-released/>! >> Not only that, we’re now calling it Generally Available – a GA release. >> >> What does this mean? What does this GA label mean? >> >> You could view as a GA label being “we’re pretty confident people aren’t >> going to on mass ask for our heads when they start using it”… which isn’t a >> too bad description. We also plan to maintain it, there could be future >> releases in this series that just include bug fixes – we won’t just >> immediately tell you to go and use the latest tarball or bzr tree. This >> release series is a good one to use. >> >> Drizzle7 is something that can be packaged in Linux distros. It’s no longer >> something where the best bet is to add the PPA >> <https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-developers/+archive/ppa> and upgrade every >> two weeks or build from source yourself. If you’re looking to deploy >> Drizzle (or develop against it) – you can rely on this release. >> >> I’ll never use the words “production ready” to describe a release – it’s >> never up to me. It’s up to each person or organisation looking to deploy a >> piece of software to decide if that bit of software is production ready for >> them. >> >> Personally, I’m looking forward to see how people can break it. While >> Drizzle is *the* best tested FOSS SQL RDBMS server, I’m sure there’s new an >> interesting ways it can be broken by saying we’re ready for a much larger >> crowd to hammer on it. >> >> Overall, I think we’ve managed to take the now defunct MySQL 6.0 tree (way >> back in 2008) and release something that can truly live up to the line >> “database for cloud”. Drizzle is modern, modular, rather solid and >> understandable. The future is bright, there is so much more to do to make >> the ultimate database for cloud. Drizzle7 is a great platform to build on – >> both for us (developers) and us (people who use relational databases). >> >> URL: http://www.flamingspork.com/blog/2011/03/16/drizzle7/ >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
