[rabbitmq-discuss] RabbitMQ 2.6.1 is released

Thu Sep 15 03:04:02 BST 2011

On 14/09/11 20:05, Simon MacMullen wrote:
> On 14/09/11 04:39, Michael Klishin wrote:
>> This is a question for RabbitMQ team membersbut I definitely would like
>> to see plugins distributed as .deb packages.
>> Current way of installing them is just painful to automate around and
>> requires manual maintenance even on point releases.
>> There has to be a better way in late 2011.
>
> We're very aware of this, but have been struggling to get to the right
> answer. Individual debs per plugin are a nice idea, but then we have to
> do the same thing for RPMs, Windows, Mac users and so on, plus we either
> package each plugin by hand or try to automate the whole thing. And the
> plugins aren't really designed to be built without the server build
> being there, and so on. It gets messy quickly.

For 2.5.1 I tried to create some more .deb packages for the other 
plugins, following the Ubuntu model used in rabbitmq-stomp, but oh my, 
it was indeed tricky to achieve and I gave up and basically pinned the 
server package at a given point so it didn't upgrade automatically and 
break everything.

But this is a worry, since it's inevitable that someone else will, 
sooner or later, notice that the version is behind and upgrade it 
without realising the implications. :(

> So the new plan is to rearrange things so that all the official plugins
> end up bundled along with the server in a standard way for all
> packaging, and we ship a tool that lets you turn them on or off.
> However, I don't have a date for when this will happen, but it is being
> worked on.

Glad to hear it is being looked at.

thanks,
Toby