Ubuntu PPA

[Marco Vermeulen]

Hey all,

At the Grails Exchange in London during December we spoke about setting up a PPA repo for Ubuntu. This will make installation of Grails a lot easier on an Ubuntu Linux system. Of course, this does mean that someone (probably me) would need to maintain this, which I would be more than happy to do provided that we have a enough interest in the community.

Is anyone else interested in this? Would this be of any value?
Please vote here!

Cheers,
Marco.

[marcin.erdmann]

Marco,

As I said during Grails Exchange I don't see a point in a PPA for
Grails... It's a framework and you usually don't want to automatically
switch between versions, otherwise you might get to a point that your
project doesn't start any more... But a PPA for Groovy would be great! I
can help in maintenance... there shouldn't be that much work needed, right?

Marcin Erdmann

On 02/01/2011 11:15 AM, Marco Vermeulen wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> At the Grails Exchange in London during December we spoke about setting up a
> PPA repo for Ubuntu. This will make installation of Grails a lot easier on
> an Ubuntu Linux system. Of course, this does mean that someone (probably me)
> would need to maintain this, which I would be more than happy to do provided
> that we have a enough interest in the community.
>
> Is anyone else interested in this? Would this be of any value?
> Please  http://mycodesnippets.com/2011/02/01/grails-ubuntu-ppa-poll/ vote
> here!
>
> Cheers,
> Marco.

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[Müller, Wolfgang]

I do see a point for that. However, one would need to look into how to make multiple grails version co-installable. This is nicely solved for JAVA in many Linux distros, so I guess that it will work in Ubuntu, too.

Cheers,
Wolfgang

On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Marcin Erdmann <[hidden email]> wrote:

Marco,

As I said during Grails Exchange I don't see a point in a PPA for Grails... It's a framework and you usually don't want to automatically switch between versions, otherwise you might get to a point that your project doesn't start any more... But a PPA for Groovy would be great! I can help in maintenance... there shouldn't be that much work needed, right?

Marcin Erdmann

On 02/01/2011 11:15 AM, Marco Vermeulen wrote:

Hey all,

At the Grails Exchange in London during December we spoke about setting up a
PPA repo for Ubuntu. This will make installation of Grails a lot easier on
an Ubuntu Linux system. Of course, this does mean that someone (probably me)
would need to maintain this, which I would be more than happy to do provided
that we have a enough interest in the community.

Is anyone else interested in this? Would this be of any value?
Please  http://mycodesnippets.com/2011/02/01/grails-ubuntu-ppa-poll/ vote
here!

Cheers,
Marco.

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[Marco Vermeulen]

Hi everyone,

Just wanted to let you know that the PPA for Grails is now live for the latest stable Grails version (1.3.7). I will soon start working on multi-version support, allowing parallel installations of multiple Grails versions. We will be using the update-alternatives command line tool to switch seamlessly between different Grails versions.

It might not be of too much relevance on this mailing list, but Groovy, Gradle and Griffon will also be getting their own PPAs under groovy-dev.

Complete instructions on getting Grails installed on Ubuntu can be found at http://bit.ly/flxI4C

Please feel free to leave comments and/or suggestions,
Cheers,
Marco.

[Jos-4]

> It might not be of too much relevance on this mailing list, but Groovy,
> Gradle and Griffon will also be getting their own PPAs under groovy-dev.

Groovy has been available for a long time on Debian/Ubuntu.
see: http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=groovy

--Jos

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[Konstantinos Kostarellis]

@Jos a ppa usually delivers the latest versions, while you were pointing to the standard packages,

which usually gets only renewed with new releases of the distro. 

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Jos <[hidden email]> wrote:

> It might not be of too much relevance on this mailing list, but Groovy,
> Gradle and Griffon will also be getting their own PPAs under groovy-dev.

Groovy has been available for a long time on Debian/Ubuntu.
see: http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=groovy

--Jos

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[Luis Muniz-2]

Thanks marco,

Once the support for multiple versions is in place I'll give it a try.
I currently use 1.3.5

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Marco Vermeulen <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi everyone,

Just wanted to let you know that the PPA for Grails is now live for the
latest stable Grails version (1.3.7). I will soon start working on
multi-version support, allowing parallel installations of multiple Grails
versions. We will be using the update-alternatives command line tool to
switch seamlessly between different Grails versions.

It might not be of too much relevance on this mailing list, but Groovy,
Gradle and Griffon will also be getting their own PPAs under groovy-dev.

Complete instructions on getting Grails installed on Ubuntu can be found at
http://bit.ly/flxI4C

Please feel free to leave comments and/or suggestions,
Cheers,
Marco.

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[Marco Vermeulen]

Hi Jos,

Even though Groovy is available as a standard package, it depends on many other modules. When I type 'apt-get install groovy', I get prompted that the following will be installed on my system (that excludes any stuff that is already installed!):

antlr ivy junit4 libantlr-java libasm3-java libbsf-java libcommons-cli-java libcommons-lang-java libcommons-logging-java libhamcrest-java libjline-java libmockobjects-java libregexp-java libservlet2.5-java libxpp3-java libxstream-java

While the intention is nice, I much prefer installing groovy as a deb WITHOUT pulling in half the universe :-) That's why my PPA builds will always be as lite as possible, depending on java-6-openjdk (or java-6-sun), and a few other tools to help the command line tab completion to work. This will allow for multiple versions of each package to be installed side-by-side in the future.

I will also ensure that we always having the very latest available on the PPA, hopefully close to (or on) the day that they are released.

Hope this helps,
Cheers,
Marco.

[Konstantinos Kostarellis]

Hi Marco,

your bash_completion script prints an error message on login if no .grails folder is available for a user.

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 1:01 AM, Marco Vermeulen <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi Jos,

Even though Groovy is available as a standard package, it depends on many
other modules. When I type 'apt-get install groovy', I get prompted that the
following will be installed on my system (that excludes any stuff that is
already installed!):

antlr ivy junit4 libantlr-java libasm3-java libbsf-java libcommons-cli-java
libcommons-lang-java libcommons-logging-java libhamcrest-java libjline-java
libmockobjects-java libregexp-java libservlet2.5-java libxpp3-java
libxstream-java

While the intention is nice, I much prefer installing groovy as a deb
WITHOUT pulling in half the universe :-) That's why my PPA builds will
always be as lite as possible, depending on java-6-openjdk (or java-6-sun),
and a few other tools to help the command line tab completion to work. This
will allow for multiple versions of each package to be installed
side-by-side in the future.

I will also ensure that we always having the very latest available on the
PPA, hopefully close to (or on) the day that they are released.

Hope this helps,
Cheers,
Marco.


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[Marco Vermeulen]

Hi,

This bug was resolved some time ago. If you do the following this should be resolved:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install grails

Cheers,
Marco.