On Thu, Sep 6, 2012, at 02:19 PM, Chip Childers wrote: > Hi all, > > Looking at previous CloudStack releases on sourceforge, I see that the > "binary" distributions are tar.gz rpm/deb packages for RHEL and > Ubuntu. I've looked at other Apache projects, and I see that they > usually include the built jar files as their "binary" release > artifacts. > > So my question for everyone is, what specifically do you think we > should be distributing as an RC (and eventually as a release)? Do we > want to do a set of the jar files in a tar.gz archive? Do we want to > do RPM and DEV packages? Do we want both?
How useful are a set of .jar packages in a tarball? Ideally, we can provide something that lets people get set up in as few steps as possible. > If we do the RPM and DEB packages, what OS should we be building on for > each? At a minimum, the latest RHEL/CentOS and Ubuntu LTS. (Long term we need to focus on being included with the distros, but that's a different discussion.) > I know these questions might be obvious to some people, but I wanted > to get a clear consensus from the list. Thanks! -- Joe Brockmeier j...@zonker.net Twitter: @jzb http://www.dissociatedpress.net/
