wouldn't a bash script cover mac and linux? also, nutch doesn't do multi-core like solr so how do you install many variations?
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Lewis John Mcgibbney < [email protected]> wrote: > 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* > -- -- Nicholas Roberts US 510-684-8264 http://Permaculture.TV <http://permaculture.tv/>
