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Matt Massie commented on AVRO-163:
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To reiterate my points above more succinctly (I hope):
1. I don't care which tool manages the top-level build/release process (e.g.
ant, bash, autotools, etc) since that is for internal consumption anyway. We
should use whatever the team feels most comfortable with and gets the job done.
2. I'm not advocating different release cycles for each language that Avro
supports. However, I strongly believe that each release should generate an
artifact (or artifacts) for each language. These artifacts should be released
at the same time, voted on at the same time and shared with the world at the
same time from a common base URL (e.g.
http://www.apache.org/dist/hadoop/avro/avro-1.2.0/). Each language should be
free to use whatever build system is natural for that language (e.g. ant for
java, setuptools for python, autotools for C/C++, etc).
3. It is unworkable for me to take a monolithic binary release tarball (like we
have now) as a basis for packaging Avro for Linux distributions (or MacOS
ports, FreeBSD, etc).
> Each language Avro supports should be a separate package
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>
> Key: AVRO-163
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-163
> Project: Avro
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: c, c++, java, python
> Affects Versions: 1.0.0, 1.1.0, 1.2.0
> Environment: We currently release Avro as a single monolithic tarball
> with ant being used to build all the languages that Avro supports.
> Reporter: Matt Massie
> Assignee: Matt Massie
> Priority: Critical
> Fix For: 1.2.1, 1.3.0
>
> Original Estimate: 8h
> Remaining Estimate: 8h
>
> *Build Issue*
> While ant is used for building Java projects, it is almost never used to
> build python, c++ or c projects. C and C++ projects are often managed using
> autotools while Python uses setuptools. Forcing these languages to use a
> foreign build system ('ant') is suboptimal and will cause us headaches as we
> move forward.
> *Release issue*
> Releasing a single monolithic package forces users of one language to
> download binary and source for all languages. For example, at this time the
> Avro C distribution is only 384K in size (built using autotools 'make
> distcheck' target). People interested in using the C implementation would be
> forced to download a large monolithic tarball (currently 3.8 MB) that
> includes dozens of third-party jar files for the Java implementation.
> Furthermore, C users would be forced to use 'ant' as the top-level build
> tool. This monolithic approach would also prevent us from submitting Avro
> for inclusion in Linux distribution yum/apt repositories as RPM and Debian
> packages. It's important to allow C/C++ code to have a pristine release
> tarball on which to base Debian and RPM packaging.
> *Solution*
> Create top-level directories: 'java', 'python', 'c++ ' , 'c', 'shared' and
> 'release'. Each language directory would contain the source for that
> language and use the build system natural for that language, e.g. ant,
> autotools, setuptools, gem, etc. The 'shared' directory would have, for
> example, common test schema and data files for interoperability testing
> between each language. A simple top-level bash script would call into each
> language to build a release package, documentation, etc. into the 'release'
> directory. Each Avro release would then be compromised of package(s) for
> each language Avro supports, e.g. avro-java-1.2.3.tar.gz,
> pyavro-1.2.3.tar.gz, avro-c++-1.2.3.tar.gz and avro-c-1.2.3.tar.gz. Later
> on, we'll also likely have libavro-devel-1.2.3-1.x86_64.rpm too.
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