Provide binary Linux packages

[vmalloc]

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[jkozera]

I've just published an Ubuntu package in PPA (linked in README). I guess Mac can wait a bit more, as there is already Dash there.

[yourilima]

zeal should focus on linux. dash is more than adequate for mac. It'll just slow down development otherwise.

[5long]

I just created zeal-git on AUR for Archlinux users. Works well for me.

[jkozera]

@5long Awesome, thanks! I've linked to it from the download page.

[roman-kashitsyn]

@jkozera, have you though about migration to CMake? I've used to build and package software into .rpm and .deb packages and all worked reasonably well with CMake >= 2.8 (at least better than home-grown package build scripts).
CMake also could create NSIS installers for MS Windows. I heard it has nice Qt support, so migration from qmake to CMake should not be hard.
It also have other nice features:

• ability to create VS projects on Windows
• out of source builds
• simple configuration management
• nice colored console output :)

I've spent some time learning CMake so I could try to write a build script for zeal.
What do you think about it?

[jkozera]

@roman-kashitsyn, thanks for the suggestion, but I'm not convinced if CMake is the way to go. For now Qt project file and Qt Creator satisfies my needs, so I don't feel like making such a large change, especially because I don't have many dependencies, just Qt, and QuaZip, which is included in Zeal's git repo. Also it would require changing my .deb configuration for Zeal's PPA, and I'm not sure when I could find a time to do it. I'd be perhaps more inclined to use autotools, as they're kind of standard for Linux.

That said, I understand it's useful to have a VS project, and not everyone likes Qt Creator, so feel free to make a CMake script for yourself in a fork, but I'm not sure if I can find the time to support it.

[trollixx]

We are not going to provide Mac OS X packages due to our agreement with Dash author.

More Linux binary packages will be available at some point (through Open Build Service, I guess). Perhaps, some distributions would maintain Zeal packages on their own.

Also, we have not up to date Ubuntu PPA.

[trollixx]

Today many Linux distributions provide Zeal from their official repositories. Ubuntu PPA is kept up to date as well. I think this issue can be finally closed.

Any new packaging request should go to zeal-packaging issue tracker. There are currently two requests for DEB and RPM packages pending investigation.

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