On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Jos Backus <j...@catnook.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Jason van Zyl <ja...@tesla.io> wrote: >> >> On Mar 19, 2012, at 4:14 PM, Jos Backus wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Jason van Zyl <ja...@tesla.io> wrote: >>>> I think if some 3rd party wants to provide an RPM have at it. I don't >>>> think this is something we want to create or support. >>> [snip] >>> >>> Any reason why not, especially when it's easy to do so? It lowers the >>> bar for users to deploy Maven. >> >> You're assuming it's easy to do but as an overall supported aspect of the >> project nothing is easy. Maybe easy for you, but not for us :-) Generating >> an RPM is one thing, supporting it and have it undergo the construction that >> RPM proponents might require like building it offline and running it under >> our normal gamut of tests is probably not easy. You're making an assumption >> that it lowers the bar, but I would argue that's for a much smaller segment >> of the user base then you might think -- I believe Windows users still make >> up the largest segment. So as I've argued in the past the value to the >> project overall versus the work to actually support creating an RPM is up >> for discussion. I don't believe it's worth the effort. > > Well, if installing Maven is really as easy as just unpacking a > tarball, creating an RPM should not be hard.
The java dependency is an issue. And then ... every RPM of a Java package I've ever seen has felt the need to take the self-contained hierarchy of the normal distro and move things to other places. Config to /etc, logs to /var/log, &cetra. So, right, one of us could probably come up with a trivial RPM, which would be trivially rejected by all of the distro packages. I could also mention the question of equal rights for debian users, and don't even get me started on Gentoo. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
