On Nov 10, 2013, at 6:26 AM, Igor Galić <i.ga...@brainsware.org> wrote: > > > 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.
There is some precedence here for e.g. OpenOffice. -- Leif > > 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 >
