On Nov 15, 2016, at 11:12 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
It was a good idea at the time, but IMO it will be way too much work to keep up to date as is. If we must provide a bundle, I think we should use something like Simon's script (AIUI) to create a fully- provisioned tree from git, probably in (a) venv(s), and make a source tarball from that, venvs and all. Something like a top-level setup.py to install it all in $prefix.
Folks who don't want that (distros, seasoned admins) can probably handle git. Probably... ;-) And following readthedocs for config.
I think I missed a reference to Simon's script, but I'd be interested in that approach too. At this point it sounds like we shouldn't fixate on a single deployment mechanism; we can provide some official containers, help distro packagers, and above all, have really good documentation.
Cheers, -Barry