Oleg, Anybody is free to create an installable version of the SDK. Chances are, we will probably link to it from the mail site as well (after a committer double checks it to make sure it didn't break in the process). If you would be willing to make a .DEB / .RPM / etc. packages, that would be awesome.
-Nick On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Left Right <olegsivo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Why should it need a DEB package > Because this is the common way to install programs on Debian-like > systems. SDK has tons of dependencies, resolving them all by hand is > difficult and time consuming. > It could be RPM too, or whatever there's the way to install on other > platforms. The more the merrier. > > For example, the build readme now says that it needs Java 1.6 (but you > will have Java 1.7 most of the time). I don't think anyone tested the > SDK with OpenJDK or IBM JDK - OpenJDK is what gets installed on Linux > by default. > > It also makes it easier to support it, because if you know how the > program was possibly installed, you'd know where to find it on other > people systems and fix, if anything is broken. > > Best. > > Oleg >
