I'm just about finished here, which is amazing, because I got a new job this week too. However, I got thinking.
What is the preferred format for installation? A .deb? An .rpm, for those of us who really feel like they have to flaunt it? Some weirdo sticky sweaty .bin file with coffee stains on it? A generic .tar.gz????
Or am I entirely overthinking this?
Know what? Nevermind. I'm not gonna ask anybody to sudo anything. Y'all are getting a .tar.gz.
As mentioned in the announcement video here, if every registered person submits something, it would suck to spend all the time we have allocated for playing submissions sorting out missing deps/packaging issues.
In the interests of keeping it simple, .tar.gz is probably a good way to go (no sense in doing distro-specific packaging unless you're doing everything), but be sure to document any dependencies that you're not bundling (I've written some brief notes on bundling and LD_LIBRARY_PATH here if that's of value).
