Maintaining gRPC packages for Ubuntu.

[Anders Cedronius]

Hi,

Is there anyone maintaining packages for Ubuntu 20.04 ? 

gRPC takes for ever to build from source in my C++ projects and the packages I found so far are outdated.

Thanks for helping,

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[Jan Tattermusch]

Hi, the gRPC team doesn't maintain official packages for any linux distribution.  There are community-provided packages for a few popular C++ packaging ecosystems (e.g. vcpkg, conan etc.) though. Also, you can install locally directly via "cmake install".

So there are quite a few ways how to avoid the need to build gRPC C++ from source repetitively.

[Anders Cedronius]

Hi Jan,

Thanks for your answer. The problem for me is that i use some systems that do not retain any information such as various GitHub runners. All other packages I use may be obtained by apt-get however I need to build gRPC for every push i make to the repo. Well I can work around that by maintaining my own binary builds however it would be nice if someone already had taken care of that and in my view Ubuntu is a quite large platform. 

Anyhow thanks for the answer.

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