pants_support_baseurls

[Joe Smith]

Hi all,

Aurora ran into an issue where it could not build on OS X 10.10, and we didn't get much clarity on the filed issue on github.

I've sent out a review for Aurora to use https://pantsbuild.github.io/binaries/build-support- does that sound reasonable? If that's going to be ~stable for the foreseeable future then that'd be awesome, but I don't want to force a public artifact store on you guys if that's not its purpose.

Thanks!

Joe

[Eric Ayers]

At Square we have some binaries that we override, so we have an internal site for those, and then we fall back to this URL for others.

pants_support_baseurls = [
    'https://our-internal-machine/test-build-support',
    'https://pantsbuild.github.io/binaries/build-support',
  ]

We have a comment to find a better solution. I’m not sure keeping binaries in github is a great long term thing because I’m not sure it could handle a lot of traffic.

[John Sirois]

I just setup a bintray account and a little publish script so we have a more stable serving system for these things.

I need to doc this a bit for pants maintainers and users alike, but thought you might like to try it out.

Artifacts are here: http://dl.bintray.com/pantsbuild/bin

Publish script is here: https://github.com/pantsbuild/binaries/blob/gh-pages/sync-bintray.sh

[Joe Smith]

Thanks for the insight! This is going to be for the external Apache codebase, so we're okay with using https://pantsbuild.github.io/binaries/build-support if you're also using it as a fallback.

Thanks!

[John Sirois]

The bintray is public as well and built to serve binaries.  I'd definitely switch - no backup.

[Joe Smith]

Aha- that's awesome. Cool, I'll move to that instead (and remove our TODO for you :)

Thanks John!

[Joe Smith]

Sent out a review at https://reviews.apache.org/r/27114/- John if you can take a look, I'd appreciate it.

(In exchange, happy to send in an update to a doc or something if you point me at what you'd like changed)

I've also sent out https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/717, if you guys would prefer to watch bintray reliability for a bit first, then I can close it out until everyone's comfortable.

Thanks!