As a occasional user of Apache Directory Studio, using almost exclusively MacOS, I haven't been able to use the latest built. The lack of installer and the default zip not working are definitely blockers for me. As a result, I haven't been able to verify that it works properly out of the box with the OpenDJ directory server.
My 2 cents, Ludo -- Ludovic Poitou http://ludopoitou.com From: Emmanuel Lécharny <[email protected]> <[email protected]> Reply: Apache Directory Developers List <[email protected]> <[email protected]> Date: 3 July 2016 at 23:58:16 To: Apache Directory Developers List <[email protected]> <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [VOTE] Apache Directory Studio 2.0.0.v20160628-M11 release 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. >
