Hi Andrew, It seems that from the core Nutch team the time and desire is not there right now to push forward with your proposals. This DOES NOT mean that the proposals will be ignored. I would FULLY back convenient packaging for Nutch artifacts... it would be a really great community contributions and we would be one of the few Apache projects that actually could claim to have such facets to the community. Please, feel free to press on with this if you have the time... right now I certainly do not. Thanks Lewis
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Andrew Pennebaker <[email protected]>wrote: > I've built a .deb for Digital Paintball a few years ago ( > http://downloads.yellosoft.us/apps/digitalpaintball-debian-src.tar.gz, > http://downloads.yellosoft.us/apps/digitalpaintball_2.0-19_all.deb). > There's a tutorial for doing this: > > https://wiki.debian.org/IntroDebianPackaging > > However, I'm using nutch for work, and may have an awkward time charging > hours for contributing to nutch. If we could work together to get a .deb, > maybe even a PPA repo for Debian/Ubuntu, a Homebrew formula for Mac, and a > Chocolatey package for Windows, that would make my life, and probably > thousands of others' lives, a whole lot easier. I'll see what I can get > done during downtime, probably prioritizing Homebrew first. > > > On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Lewis John Mcgibbney < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Andrew, > > Have you written and maintained Debian packages before? > > I opened a Jira issue for this a whiel back and as far as I know it is a > > far from trivial process but I would be very very interested to get a > > Debiran package for Nutch and look at a mac package if so required. > > There is an issue of who is going to maintain these packages? > > Thanks > > lewis > > > > On Friday, August 16, 2013, Andrew Pennebaker <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > I think it would make nutch installation easier if we released > > standardized > > > packages. > > > > > > For example, the Nutch tutorial calls for manually downloading a ZIP, > > > extracting the contents, installing ant, compiling nutch with ant, and > > > adjusting PATH. > > > > > > What if instead, Ubuntu users could simply "apt-get install nutch", the > > > same way you can install wget with "apt-get install wget"? > > > > > > Similarly, we could help out Mac developers by submitting a > > > Homebrew<http://brew.sh/> formula > > > for nutch, and Windows developers would enjoy a > > > Chocolatey<http://chocolatey.org/> package. > > > The easier the installation process, the more people want to use nutch! > > > > > > > -- > > *Lewis* > > > -- *Lewis*
