[forge-dev] Packaging Forge for Linux

Paul Bakker paul.bakker.nl at gmail.com
Fri Jan 27 11:20:14 EST 2012


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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