> -----Original Message----- > From: Alex Huang [mailto:alex.hu...@citrix.com] > Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2013 7:46 PM > To: David Nalley > Cc: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: [DISCUSS] Binary downloads.... > > > > > Because providing 'binaries' isn't necessarily problematic, but making > > yum and apt repos work in the ASF mirror system seems a bit more of an > > issue. Plus, Wido stepped up to do the work, no one else has offered > > any other alternatives. > > > David, > > I apologize if this has all been discussed. And this is off-topic from > packaging > so I changed the subject. > > RPMs don't necessarily have to be from yum repo right? Why can't it just be > downloaded from the page along with the source package? Don't get me > wrong. Very grateful to Wido for stepping up to help. Not questioning that. > It's just that when I visit the download page, it just has a bunch of rpms but > nothing to offer in terms of directions on what to do to install. It makes it > difficult for new users to get started. What can we do in that area to make > it > easier?
The reason I bring this up is that CloudStack is a mostly java based web app. It's not a given that someone who understands java/j2ee understands linux and yum/apt repos. For them it is somewhat difficult and we should lower that bar. That's where I'm coming from on this. I do understand packaging into rpms and debs. There's lots of great benefits and of course is a prerequisite to getting into distros but I look forward to the day where we just have a few wars zipped up in tar.gz or .zip and people just download them and deploy them as they would any webapp. --Alex
