Le 03/07/16 à 23:21, Stefan Seelmann a écrit : > >> * We don't have the installers to test. Packages for all the platforms >> we suport should be created (.dmg, .deb, .exe, .rpm). I have created the >> DMG following the README in the /tools/Mac OS X DMG/README doco, I think >> creating all the other installers should be part of the release being >> voted. Note that the installer works well, and teh version it installs >> doe snot have teh same problem I faced upper. > We have issue https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DIRSTUDIO-1022, but > to be honest I'm not very motivated to generate the installers. > > * I'm not sure if generation of .dmg works well on Linux They do work well. > * Generating .dmg, .deb, .rpm, .exe requries native tools Yes. I do have them.
> * It costs time to create an maintain those installer scripts. Should we > reuse installers-maven-plugin from ApacheDS? T einstallers are prettty basic. > * The additional .deb and .exe (32 bit and 64 bit) increase the release > by another 480 MB true. > * The installers need to be tested (in theory .deb and .rpm can be > automated...) Well, we offer installers for convenience. > > The Tycho build now nicely generates zip/tgz for Linux/Mac/Windows out > of the box on all platforms. I think our users don't need installers but > can unpack a zip/tgz. I think another approach would be to exclude installers from the vote. I can generate them and push them, as I have all the necessary native code to do that for all the platforms.
