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andrewpatto opened this issue Oct 21, 2024 · 6 comments
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Think about packaging #11

andrewpatto opened this issue Oct 21, 2024 · 6 comments
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Were this to become a popular/useful utility - how does it get published/available in distros? Brew etc?

I presume we can start with a brew tap immediately and host it via the repo?
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I think listing in distros is much more long term.. got to find out if it is useful and people want it first..

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https://docs.brew.sh/How-to-Create-and-Maintain-a-Tap

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Just because it is in the same area as the CI builds - and again thinking in the short term about not putting it into public registries.

But I believe that we can add "taps" to our Brew (basically point it at github.com/umccr somehow?) and there is some config magic that would allow us to install it on our own macs?

Can you investigate what that needs? Possibly needs a special UMCCR brew repo?

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brainstorm commented Mar 21, 2025 •
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The "canonical" way to publish Rust binaries and libraries (crates) is via https://crates.io ... sure, we can brew tap it relatively easily (I've done it before for other packages), but it's unusual (impractical? unintuitive?) to not use cargo for a tool like this one? Caveat: For now and IMHO!

Building packages for distros is quite a "level-up" for when a package becomes mainstream... and requires a significant effort to put it through (and maintain it) via the different channels/builders for Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora, etc...

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Yes understand distros is way down the track - and we would need to demonstrate adoption and usefulness.

And crates is the correct way once we have worked out stuff - like what the binary should be called.

Though - why would there be an expectation that people who want to use a rust binary are into Rust? i.e. they may not even know what cargo is. Surely there is a market for people who just want to run a CLI tool?

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brainstorm commented Mar 21, 2025 •
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Yup yup, very valid points, I'll take this as a template once we retake this, I think it's fairly well written and recent:

https://skerritt.blog/packaging-your-rust-code/

https://optimizedbyotto.com/post/debian-packaging-from-git/

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