Binary packages

[coryan]

This comes up from time to time. It is in our roadmap, but we have not scheduled the work.

There are many binary packages we may consider. See #333 for an old list, or #3355 and #9233 for more recent lists. Some package managers already create binary packages for at least some of the libraries in google-cloud-cpp. For example, Conda:

https://github.com/conda-forge/google-cloud-cpp-feedstock#current-release-info

and Conan Center:

https://conan.io/center/google-cloud-cpp

But we should consider binary packages for popular OS distributions (Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, etc.).

There are some difficult questions to answer for distros that change very very slowly compared to our code base. We cannot backport all fixes, we cannot promise ABI compatibility. Maybe start with distros life Fedora that goes EOL in about a year anyway? Or maybe only support the "tumbleweed" equivalents?

[coryan]

I think we should consider support for Bazel modules and the Bazel central registry part of this larger task.

[coryan]

Revisit for H2/2023

[coryan]

Not for Q3/2023, maybe Q4.

[joshyjoseph]

Hi All,
if I have to contribute to conan recipe for google cloud cpp, where i have to raise the issue and where can I find source for the same.

[coryan]

@joshyjoseph the recipe for conan.io already exists: https://github.com/conan-io/conan-center-index/tree/master/recipes/google-cloud-cpp

If there are problems with the recipe please open a bug in that repo, feel free to CC me on the bug.

[coryan]

We will want to revisit this, but closing for now.