Jq: Ubuntu PPA for nightly build

[dreamcat4]

Hi,
It would help some people on ubuntu for us to make a PPA, to download the jq v1.5 including it's man pages. Unless you are expecting to release it soon. The RC1 has been going for 6 months now.

[nicowilliams]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 01:48:06PM -0700, Dreamcat4 wrote:

It would help some people on ubuntu for us to make a PPA, to download the jq v1.5 including it's man pages. Unless you are expecting to release it soon. The RC1 has been going for 6 months now.

I agree.

We could release sooner if we leave some module system enhancements for later. There is one bug I need to fix for 1.5 and but for the module system enhancements, it'd be ready to ship.

Comments?

[pkoppstein]

@nicowilliams asked:

Comments?

For a full release, please either resurrect @wtlangford's "-l" option or ensure the import statement can be used to import into the caller's namespace. Thanks.

[nicowilliams]

I've fixed the bugs I care about. I think I'll cut an rc2 and see what we do about the remaining modules work.

[dtolnay]

@else may know more about how we could set up a PPA with nightly builds.

[elsbrock]

Well I'm no expert on Ubuntu PPA, but I guess we'd need to have a nightly job that builds the package and dputs it into Ubuntu PPA. There seems to be no way to let Launchpad do this automatically.

I have found this: https://github.com/mapnik/debian/blob/master/nightly-build.sh

Anyways, I am happy to help in case you want to do this.

[dreamcat4]

Hi guys. Personally I recommend dockerhub + bintray.com. It is what we used for tvheadend project. Automatic nightly builds, it automatically uploads to a public bintray.com APT repo. We fully documented all the process here ---> https://github.com/tvheadend/tvheadend-build

Launchpad may be OK too, so long as you can setup automatic git imports --> bzr to happen automatically. It has bugs in that. For building they pbuilder and there is a different process. You have to put your build files in a bzr repository on your launchpad.net account.

[jeroen]

Is there a ppa with jq backports or dailies yet? I'd like to use libjq-dev in ubuntu trusty / xenial.