Facilitate Pulsar Shell download and installation

[nicoloboschi]

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Motivation

With Pulsar 2.11.0 released, users can use pulsar-shell by downloading the artifact from the download page or they can use it from the docker image.
It works but we can improve it.

Most of the CLI tools have one-line solution to get ready in seconds without doing manual works.

I want to propose the following methods:

Installation script

A file hosted in the pulsar-site with one-liner for shell installation. DataStax already has one script that can be used for that. We could have the same thing for the apache project. Then the user just needs to run

curl -Ls "https://pulsar.apache.org/download/shell" | bash

For fixed versions

curl -Ls "https://pulsar.apache.org/download/shell" | bash 2.11.0

Brew (MacOS)

Offers a official formula for the shell. This is an example from DataStax

We might need to submit it to the homebrew repository to make it an official formula.
Then then user could install it using:

brew install apache-pulsar-shell

Windows

Since Pulsar shell works in Windows as well, we might provide a .msi file.

Other ideas

Other ideas are:

• sdkman

Solution

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Alternatives

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Anything else?

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Are you willing to submit a PR?

• I'm willing to submit a PR!

[sunheyi6]

@nicoloboschi now only the msi for windows is missing?

[tisonkun]

Since it's more as feature ideas, moved to open-ended discussion before we has a clear plan or volunteers want to figure out how to improve the case.

[austek]

There don't seem to be any discussion here. what is required to progress this further?