Re: [BuildStream] Migration of plugins away from BuildStream core

[Phil Dawson <phil dawson codethink com>]

On 26/02/2019 11:43, Mathieu Bridon via BuildStream-list wrote:
> One thing I haven't seen mentioned at all is distribution packaging. I
> maintain the Fedora package for Buildstream.
>
> As it is, `dnf install buildstream` on Fedora provides something that
> is very useful out of the box.
>
> With the migration, all those plugin repositories will need to be
> packaged separately.
>
> I personally do not plan on doing that. I signed up to maintain one
> package, and it suddenly transforms into 10+ packages under me, which
> is not something I'm happy about.
>
> Unless somebody else steps up to maintain those plugin packages, that
> means people using dnf to install Buildstream will be extremely
> disappointed, as they do not get any more something readily useful.
>
> Of course, if somebody does want to maintain all those plugin packages,
> I am more than happy to transfer to them the main buildstream package
> as well.
Hi Mathieu

Thanks for raising your concerns. I'm sorry you feel this way, for
more effective upstream management we feel this is necessary
however.

As far as maintenance of the fedora distro package goes, one approach
would be to package all the requisite python modules into a single RPM
for Fedora.

Cheers,

Phil

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