If you're going to go to this effort, why not go all the way and maintain packages in the official repos of the distros? On Sep 11, 2012 1:38 AM, "Octavian Damiean" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > > I've had a quick chat about pre-built packages on IRC a few days ago. > wendal > and me agreed that it would be nice to have pre-build binaries for Linux > too. > > The basic idea was to have something similar to the Nginx guys[1]. A > download/install page with direct links to Windows and OS X binaries and > instructions on how to add an official CouchDB repository to the respective > package manager. > > This would require additional infrastructure I guess however it would lower > the > adaption bar quite a bit since not everyone is comfortable enough to build > from source. > > Having such official repositories (for Debian and Red Hat) would also > increase > trust in the pre-build binaries. > > If this requires someone to actively manage the packages/repositories then > I > would volunteer. > > Any thoughts? > > Cheers, > Octavian Damiean > > [1]: http://wiki.nginx.org/Install >
