Binaries

[KOLANICH]

I think that we should supply binary packages. This can be done using Travis CI.
1 Build binary packages in Travis CI. They are built anyway, all what you need is to package build results into packages.
2 Upload them into repos' Releases and anywhere else using the Travis feature to supply private data in encrypted form.

[GreyCat]

Um, we already have binaries published for releases at BinTray (see downloads links from our website), and we publish all unstable .msi builds as AppVeyor artifacts. The only thing I can think of is publishing unstable .zip / .deb artifacts — you mean that?

[KOLANICH]

and we publish all unstable .msi builds as AppVeyor artifacts.

It's nice! I guess linux users can just unpack the msi to get the jar file. It even may be better to just supply a jar file since it doesn't require installation.

Please add the link to the download section of the website.

[GreyCat]

It's nice! I guess linux users can just unpack the msi to get the jar file.

So far, none of the Linux users complained — I guess git clone + sbt stage is something that average Linux user can do. But point taken, there are plans to publish .zip + .deb artifacts as well that I'll publish soon in #62.

It even may be better to just supply a jar file since it doesn't require installation.

We don't build fat jars, and kaitai_struct.jar alone is not enough to work properly on an average system.

Please add the link to the download section of the website.

Um, what exactly is missing?

[KOLANICH]

Um, what exactly is missing?

Links in Universal .zip and Linux .dev sections are missing.

[KOLANICH]

@GreyCat, how about fixing building of nightly packages for linux distros on bintray? I don't want to rebuild KSC on travis and I don't want to use lessmsi (because it requires .net runtime which is large) or wine (is large itself) there. Also IMHO it's better to have it rather than perverse with unpacking msi.

[GreyCat]

Since ~2018-02-28 (as seen in commits like these), we're publishing unstable Debian packages to https://bintray.com/kaitai-io/debian_unstable repo. I guess all that's left is adding relevant link to website.

[GreyCat]

Finally, seems to be done.