Swift T packaging plan

aka SPP

List of things to support

• Manual builds (configure/make x3, ant) from Git source code
• Constructing release version source code packages
• Build from Git clone or release package via build-all
• Debian package
• Other packages (RPM, Mac)
• We will not package binaries for exotic systems (Blue Gene, Cray)

Status

• Manual builds work
• build-all works
• Release packaging is broken since the move to GitHub
• Debian - in progress
• Always need feedback on documentation

Goals

6 packages

• libexmcutils{-dev}
• libadlbx{-dev}
• turbine
• stc

turbine should be made to work with the non-dev packages. (The dev packages will install many header files.)

Scripts

The old attempt at Debian is here:

https://github.com/swift-lang/swift-t/blob/master/dev/build/package-debian.zsh

It should be integrated (for code reuse) with the new (working) source code release package tool:

https://github.com/swift-lang/swift-t/blob/master/dev/build/make-release-pkg.zsh

Harder questions

• How to document 3rd party installations (especially MPI, Tcl). Wozniak favors minimal documentation for these things.
• How to produce binary packages that support Python, R, Java, etc.