adsblol / feed

📡🛰 Easy to use, container-based MLAT/ADS-B/ACARS/VDL2 multi feed client
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proper packaging? #16

Open drzraf opened 1 month ago

drzraf commented 1 month ago

Follow-up of https://github.com/ADSBexchange/feedclient/issues/16 which applies as well to the present master branch (which sounds like a fork but started as a copy, isn't?)

Does it sound desirable from a long-term maintenance perspective?

wiedehopf commented 1 month ago

mlat-client having a non-deprecated way to build would be nice. (and i find the whole python build stuff very confusing when i tried touching it)

readsb being a deb is an issue unless you make the package / binary name adsb.lol specific. different projects don't want their installed binary messed with by another project.

Considering that you'd still build the debs during install, you still have a shell script users need to run. It installs more stuff to build the debs (that's a minor drawkback i suppose).

Dealing with debian packaging sounds like work from a maintenance perspective actually.

Really making sure this works after lots of changes would be a lot of work. The number of users who care about this and don't just use one of the docker containers is likely pretty small. And for 99% of users it's just as much of a black box after the proposed changes.

git clone = .deb Are you suggesting to actually have a deb for download? With all the architectures / system versions that sounds like a nightmare.

I get the intent, but i'm doubting the actual benefit.

One note, there is this linked in the readme: https://github.com/adsblol/feed?tab=readme-ov-file#manual-feeding-with-readsb-and-mlat-client So this is an alternative for people who don't want to run the scripts and don't want to run docker stuff.