On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
I would just leave it out of the package altogether. > 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. Who cares if they reject it, if they are not offering anything better. > I could also mention the question of equal rights for debian users, > and don't even get me started on Gentoo. Well, what scales better: packagers associated with a single distro trying to package thousands of packages, or packagers associated with a single package packaging that package for a few (major) distros? Jos > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > -- Jos Backus jos at catnook.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org
