[forge-dev] Packaging Forge for Linux

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 -- Dan Allen Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat | Author of Seam in Action Registered Linux User #231597 http://google.com/profiles/dan.j.allen http://mojavelinux.com http://mojavelinux.com/seaminaction