Hi Leif, we are aware of that and want to get to that point. We've traditionally been Centos-based, and the rpm building is already implemented. That's intended as a nicety to make testing the RC easier.. I, for one, would love to eliminate building rpm's...
Dan On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 3:32 PM, Leif Hedstrom <zw...@apache.org> wrote: > >> On Nov 8, 2016, at 3:27 PM, Dan Kirkwood <dang...@apache.org> wrote: >> >> Hello All, >> >> I've prepared a release for v1.8.0 (RC1) >> >> Changes since 1.7.0: >> https://github.com/apache/incubator-trafficcontrol/compare/RELEASE-1.7.0...RELEASE-1.8.0-RC1 >> >> This corresponds to git: >> Hash: bebf63eedce2d3912752c65b0d52d739f820e0ac >> Tag: RELEASE-1.8.0-RC1 > > > Hmmm, quick question: Why RPMs? That seems pretty restrictive, in that > someone could not download / test / look at any of this without having an OS > distro that supports RPM… It’d be preferable (IMO at least) to have source > artifacts as regular tar-balls (gzip / bzip2’d). > > Cheers, > > — Leif >
