mapbox/tilemill — Issue #1234: revisit ubuntu packaging
Author: springmeyer
Created: 2012-01-25 21:00:41+00:00
State: open

Launchpad and .deb packages are a becoming serious pain point to maintain.

We should scope either:

1) Statically linking and packaging tarballs of releases ourselves. We could do this simply by maintaining build scripts on VM's of each distro we wish to support and providing a tarball a user could curl and untar directly into /usr/local.

or

2) Drop special-case supporting ubuntu overall. We could instead offer excellent docs on source compiles of clearly tagged versions of mapnik/tilemill/node.