On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Rohit Yadav <rohit.ya...@citrix.com> wrote:
> I think we should release source tarballs and compiled binaries/artifact
> tarballs (a lot of asf projects have downloaded precompiled tarballs of their
> artifacts, for ex. maven) as well and leave it to packaging people (specific
> to a distro) how they want to work with those.
>
> Another idea that comes to my mind is why is it necessary to create distro
> specific package? While they are certainly easy to work with, why not have a
> tarball that say extracts to /opt and works right away. This kind of
> packaging will have all the scripts and files in its own directory like
> /opt/cloudstack/{bin,doc,lib,etc}. What I'm suggesting is that we publish
> this kind of distro and os independent binary packaging and let distro
> specific package maintainers decide how they want to package cloudstack.
>
> Regards.
Location of things we depend on, differences in init systems, there is
too much shell script in CS to work that way, particularly for things
like the KVM agent.
--David
