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Document application distribution #1315
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Not sure about this one... First, my knowledge in this area is very limited. I know how to publish the picocli binaries to bintray, in a way that they also get published to Maven Central, and that is pretty much it. On the other side, I have consumed packages from chocolatey, apt-get and yum, but that is the full extent of my knowledge. :-) Second, even just writing about how to publish jar files and documentation for a library to Bintray/Maven Central is not easy to explain in a few paragraphs. If we provide enough detail to be useful, there is enough material for an article of a few pages. And this is just Bintray/Maven Central. I imagine that documentation for each of these repositories and distribution mechanisms would be a similar amount of material. So overall, this is a lot of documentation. And is this not already available elsewhere? I am not sure how much value can we add by mentioning these in the picocli manual. |
Indeed, it would be to much to documentation to write. To my knowledge, all package managers work similarly but the details are different. It is annoying and time consuming to support several. |
Do you feel like contributing some documentation? :-) |
Why not? |
Just for fun, here is a list a package managers: |
I am perfectly happy not to pursue this further. 😉 |
Shall we close this ticket? |
Sure. |
It seems that someone is automating the distribution 😄 |
Similar to the chapter Packaging Your Application in the documentation, it would be great to have a chapter dedicated to the distribution (for example: "Distributing Your Application").
Distribution can be done by downloading binaries directly or by using a package manager such as
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