hlx binary distribution

[stefan-guggisberg]

follow-up on #19

proposal:

• move hlx installer POC to adobe/helix-cli-dist
• integrate helix-cli-dist with CI, i.e. build and and tag install.sh on every helix-cli npm release
• Getting Started doc: refer to option to download hlx instead of building it using npm

todo:

• verify licenses of packaged dependencies WRT distribution
• check whether binary distribution would be subject to export restrictions

i'll create separate issues for the todo's.

[tripodsan]

silly question: why a new repo and not have the installer logic in the helix-cli repository?

[stefan-guggisberg]

the idea is to host the binaries on GH, at least for now.

every binary release adds ~40mb. cloning helix-cli would get slower and slower.

[tripodsan]

every binary release adds ~40mb. cloning helix-cli would get slower and slower.

good point

[stefan-guggisberg]

another option would be to come up for an alternative upload location.

[tripodsan]

I would put them to the releases. see
https://help.github.com/articles/about-releases/#limitations-on-binary-files

for example: https://github.com/adobe/helix-cli/releases/tag/v0.3.2

@stefan-guggisberg can you create a installer for the v0.3.2 release and upload it to that page?

[stefan-guggisberg]

@tripodsan good point. i'll have a look.

[stefan-guggisberg]

@tripodsan

done.

curl -LO https://github.com/adobe/helix-cli/releases/download/v0.3.2/hlx_install.sh
chmod +x
./hlx_install.sh

the only drawback is that you have to specify the version in the url. i haven't found a way (url) that allows to download the latest version.

[tripodsan]

the only drawback is that you have to specify the version in the url. i haven't found a way (url) that allows to download the latest version.

I think we can achieve this eventually with a redirect on something like: https://helix.io/instal.sh

[trieloff]

Are we going to run into space limits if we do snapshot releases via CircleCI?

[trieloff]

We can probably use something like https://adobe.ly/helix-cli

This is powered by bitly, which has an API for updating shortened links: https://dev.bitly.com/v4_documentation.html (only for paying customers, like Adobe)

[tripodsan]

I wouldn't do snapshot releases for binary distributions to github... however, github writes:

We don't limit the total size of your binary release files, nor the bandwidth used to deliver them. However, each individual file must be under 2 GB in size.