On 09/11/2012 07:53 AM, Jason King wrote:
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?
This is a much more difficult proposition than proposed. Most
distributions have new developer guidelines that must be followed. This
can take a considerable amount of work, and often requires a sponsor. To
be trusted with the ability to push signed packages is yet another level
of trust that must be established. Most of the distros already have
package maintainers. These packages are rarely kept current, and do not
correlate with upstream releases. Even when they are updated, they are
typically only built for the latest "testing" branch and don't help any
real users.
This is a complex issue. Establishing good relationships with
distribution package maintainers is the best approach for dealing with
various distributions.
Releasing official packages ensures that the latest stable releases are
available regardless of distribution politics and release schedules.
Wendall
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
