grpc linux c++ .deb/.rpm package generation

[Chris Freehill]

Hi,

Recently (to my knowledge), we have gained the ability to build the Linux c++ gRPC executables and libraries (including protoc, etc.) with CMake on Linux. This has been a big help.

Since we have this, it seems like the next step is to have .deb and .rpm (and others?) package generation. Is this in the roadmap?

The problem with the current requirement build is deployment on a large number of machines.

In the interim, does anyone see issues with building gRPC and making an archive with the libraries and executables generated by the build, and using that for deployment over many machines?

Thanks,

Chris

[Patrice Chalin]

+Jan Tattermusch 

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[Jan Tattermusch]

Glad to hear that the CMake improvements we've made were helpful.

Debian / Red Hat packages would be nice to have but they are not on the road map mostly because:

- It's a significant amount of maintenance (we've been providing deb packages in the past and it was a lot of overhead and generally it was pretty troublesome and not worth the work).

- Especially for debian, it takes long time (=years) before the official grpc packages would make it into e.g. debian stable where they would be the most useful. As grpc evolves rapidly, at that point you'd be using very old version of grpc missing on lots of new features and fixed.

- As a result, providing an easy-to-use CMake build and integration with some C++ package managers (conan, vcpkg, etc) seems like the best way to make sure people can install gRPC C++ with relative ease and stay up to date. Languages other than C++ have their own packaging mechanisms so they don't need debian packages anyway.

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