Hi folks, Inspired by PostgreSQL's move[1][2], I've been considering to go down the road of offering (at least) RPM and Deb packages* for CentOS/Fedora, Debian/Ubuntu of the latest supported Apache Traffic Server releases.
This would increase the initial effort on our side considerably, but also cut *down* in user support negotiation, e.g.: * How did you compile your version of ATS? * Oh, but did you remember to install these libraries before? * please use <binary> -- I don't have <binary> -- Oh, you forgot to install <library> before compiling… It would also considerably increase the adoption rate of new releases as it did in the case of PostgreSQL. Please consider that I don't know the exact legal status in the case of the PostgreSQL Foundation, but since the only product the ASF legally supports is source code, those packages would be, as the Subject suggests, only semi-official. I'd like to get feedback from both, developers (and packagers) as well as users. If someone wants to jump in and volunteer to create either of those please do that also ;) So long, Igor [1] https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/YUM_Installation [2] https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Apt * why not FreeBSD or Solaris? Because those people are assumed to know how to compile new software ;) -- Igor Galić Tel: +43 (0) 664 886 22 883 Mail: i.ga...@brainsware.org URL: http://brainsware.org/ GPG: 8716 7A9F 989B ABD5 100F 4008 F266 55D6 2998 1641
