Not being a Mac OS user myself, I cannot argue how useful this is for
its user-base. But provided most of the the Mac users can or do use
homebrew, I say go for it!
On 19/11/2019 18.26, Mark Waite wrote:
> This sounds like the right plan to me. +1
>
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 9:02 AM Oleg Nenashev <
o.v.ne...@gmail.com
> <mailto:
o.v.ne...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> As you probably know, there is ongoing work on automating Jenkins
> Core releases within the Jenkins infrastructure. Apart from Linux
> and Windows distributions, there is also a OS X installer which is
> being produced for each Weekly and LTS release in the current
> release environment (download link
> <
https://jenkins.io/download/thank-you-downloading-osx-installer-stable/>).
> There are also a homebrew formula
> <
https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/jenkins> being maintained by the
> HomeBrew community, these packages are even listed in our
> installation guide <
https://jenkins.io/doc/book/installing/#macos>.
>
> In the new environment we use MS Azure, and there is no good way to
> produce OS X builds there, because they require MacOS. We could use
> an external service for that, but it would add additional point of
> failure and implementation/maintenance overhead. Since the HomeBrew
> is a defacto standard in MacOS, I do not think it worth the effort.
> What f we just stop shipping them?
>
> Implementation plan:
>
> * Deprecate in the next weekly releases
> o It requires a changelog entry in one of the next weekly
> releases + LTS upgrade guideline entry + likely a
> deprecation blogpost
> * Use HomeBrew as a recommended source of MacOS installers, mark
> it as a 3rd-party installer like we do for other downloads
> *
> * Remove MacOS native packaging from Jenkins release Pipelines
> once we fully switch to automated releases
>
> WDYT?
>
> Best regards,
> Oleg
>
>
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