[forge-dev] Packaging Forge for Linux

[Lincoln Baxter, III]

Very good idea. Let's create a JIRA for this.

Dan, feel like copying and pasting your emails into JIRA so that you get
credit for the idea?

https://issues.jboss.org/browse/FORGE

~Lincoln

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Paul Bakker <paul.bakker.nl at gmail.com>wrote:

> Great idea I think. We should probably do the same for Mac OS and, well,
> Windows too.
>
> Paul
>
> On Jan 26, 2012, at 7:02 , Dan Allen wrote:
>
> Creating and publishing Forge packages for Linux (Fedora, Debian & Ubuntu)
> would really help boost adoption of Forge, IMO. Telling someone to download
> an unzip seems simple enough, but there's just something even more elegant
> about:
>
> sudo apt-get install jboss-forge
>
> or
>
> sudo yum install jboss-forge
>
> (no sudo if you're hip enough, one of those GUIs if your glitzy enough)
>
> I just discovered today that Fedora is trying to make package development
> easier than ever for Java developers. They've created a plugin for Eclipse
> [1] that walks you through creating a package, starting from git clone all
> the way to publish to Bodhi [2] (think of it like Nexus for Fedora, sort
> of).
>
> This may seem premature, but *trust me*, we want to think about this
> *well* in advance so that we have some chance of getting into Fedora 17 or
> 18. (The process for Debian / Ubuntu may go faster).
>
> Btw, this will likely relate, tie into or help drive the JBoss AS7 on
> Fedora initiative [3].
>
> -Dan
>
> [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Packager_For_Eclipse_User_Guide
> [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bodhi
> [3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JBossAS7
>
> --
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