Add to apt

[earthboundkid]

It would be more convenient to install micro on servers if you could just run apt-get install micro.

[aerth]

@carlmjohnson http://pkg-go.alioth.debian.org/packaging.html assuming you are talking about packaging go binary for Debian repository. I think it may be tough to get new software into jessie repo. In the meantime, a .deb package would be nice.

BTW installing the linux binary is as easy as something like:

wget http://zbyedidia.webfactional.com/micro/binaries/micro-linux64.tar.gz
tar xzf micro*
cd micro
./install.sh
sudo cp bin/micro /usr/local/bin/

[niieani]

A nice touch would be the addition of micro to brew on macOS (and other package managers on other OSes), so it could be installed with brew install micro.

Packaging for multiple OSes can be painlessly achieved using fpm.

[CamilleScholtz]

@niieani

It's already homebrew: https://github.com/zyedidia/micro/wiki/Installing-Micro

[niieani]

@onodera-punpun Ah, I see, good to know. It would be good if it were to end up in the official homebrew repo though.

[Rowno]

Those homebrew instructions should really be in the README. 😉

[zyedidia]

Yes I've added the instructions to the readme now. I didn't have them before because the brew formula didn't work so well with the nightly binaries, but it's fine now that there are released versions.

[zyedidia]

Micro is now in the official brew repository :D.

[techtonik]

So what about apt then? Where do we start?

[techtonik]

Okay. They recommend doing it through Debian - http://askubuntu.com/questions/16446/how-to-get-my-software-into-ubuntu

and for Go Debian has these guidelines - https://pkg-go.alioth.debian.org/packaging.html

which basically recommend using this tool - https://github.com/Debian/dh-make-golang

which fails with this:

$ dh-make-golang github.com/zyedidia/micro
2016/12/26 14:18:55 Downloading "github.com/zyedidia/micro/..."
2016/12/26 14:19:53 Determining upstream version number
2016/12/26 14:19:53 WARNING: Annotated tag not found, using lightweight tag "nightly"
2016/12/26 14:19:53     Lightweight tags (created by e.g. "git tag nightly"
2016/12/26 14:19:53     with no flag) are problematic because, among other
2016/12/26 14:19:53     things, they are ignored by "git describe" by default.
2016/12/26 14:19:53     Please suggest that the upstream replaces the
2016/12/26 14:19:53     lightweight tags with annotated ones.  See
2016/12/26 14:19:53     https://github.com/russross/blackfriday/issues/196
2016/12/26 14:19:53     for details.
2016/12/26 14:19:53 
2016/12/26 14:19:53 Package version is "nightly+git20161225.0.d49e366"
2016/12/26 14:19:53 Determining package type
2016/12/26 14:19:53 Assuming you are packaging a program (because "github.com/zyedidia/micro/cmd/micro" defines a main package), use -type to override
2016/12/26 14:19:53 Determining dependencies
2016/12/26 14:19:54 Cannot derive Debian package name: unknown hoster "layeh.com". See -help output for -allow_unknown_hoster

[zyedidia]

Ok I got it to build using dh-make-golang -allow_unknown_hoster github.com/zyedidia/micro (also make sure you have gbp installed).

That gives this output

2016/12/26 10:39:57 Downloading "github.com/zyedidia/micro/..."
2016/12/26 10:40:21 Determining upstream version number
2016/12/26 10:40:21 WARNING: Annotated tag not found, using lightweight tag "nightly"
2016/12/26 10:40:21     Lightweight tags (created by e.g. "git tag nightly"
2016/12/26 10:40:21     with no flag) are problematic because, among other
2016/12/26 10:40:21     things, they are ignored by "git describe" by default.
2016/12/26 10:40:21     Please suggest that the upstream replaces the
2016/12/26 10:40:21     lightweight tags with annotated ones.  See
2016/12/26 10:40:21     https://github.com/russross/blackfriday/issues/196
2016/12/26 10:40:21     for details.
2016/12/26 10:40:21 
2016/12/26 10:40:21 Package version is "nightly+git20161226.2.143339d"
2016/12/26 10:40:21 Determining package type
2016/12/26 10:40:21 Assuming you are packaging a program (because "github.com/zyedidia/micro/cmd/micro" defines a main package), use -type to override
2016/12/26 10:40:21 Determining dependencies
2016/12/26 10:40:22 WARNING: Using "layeh" as canonical hostname for "layeh.com". If that is not okay, please file a bug against dh-make-golang.
2016/12/26 10:40:23 Build-Dependency "golang-github-zyedidia-tcell-dev" is not yet available in Debian
2016/12/26 10:40:23 Build-Dependency "golang-layeh-gopher-luar-dev" is not yet available in Debian
2016/12/26 10:40:23 Build-Dependency "golang-github-sergi-go-diff-dev" is not yet available in Debian
2016/12/26 10:40:23 Build-Dependency "golang-github-yuin-gopher-lua-dev" is not yet available in Debian
2016/12/26 10:40:23 Build-Dependency "golang-github-zyedidia-glob-dev" is not yet available in Debian
2016/12/26 10:40:23 Build-Dependency "golang-github-zyedidia-json5-dev" is not yet available in Debian
2016/12/26 10:40:23 Build-Dependency "golang-github-go-errors-errors-dev" is not yet available in Debian
2016/12/26 10:40:23 Build-Dependency "golang-github-zyedidia-clipboard-dev" is not yet available in Debian
2016/12/26 10:40:25 
2016/12/26 10:40:25 Packaging successfully created in /home/zachary/micro
2016/12/26 10:40:25 
2016/12/26 10:40:25 Resolve all TODOs in itp-micro.txt, then email it out:
2016/12/26 10:40:25     sendmail -t < itp-micro.txt
2016/12/26 10:40:25 
2016/12/26 10:40:25 Resolve all the TODOs in debian/, find them using:
2016/12/26 10:40:25     grep -r TODO debian
2016/12/26 10:40:25 
2016/12/26 10:40:25 To build the package, commit the packaging and use gbp buildpackage:
2016/12/26 10:40:25     git add debian && git commit -a -m 'Initial packaging'
2016/12/26 10:40:25     gbp buildpackage --git-pbuilder
2016/12/26 10:40:25 
2016/12/26 10:40:25 To create the packaging git repository on alioth, use:
2016/12/26 10:40:25     ssh git.debian.org "/git/pkg-go/setup-repository micro 'Packaging for micro'"
2016/12/26 10:40:25 
2016/12/26 10:40:25 Once you are happy with your packaging, push it to alioth using:
2016/12/26 10:40:25     git push git+ssh://git.debian.org/git/pkg-go/packages/micro.git --tags master pristine-tar upstream

So it seems like it shouldn't be too hard to fix the TODOs. The version seems to be a problem, but we can always just checkout the commit with v1.1.3 in micro before building for apt.

[techtonik]

I thought that for fixing version it is enough to create annotated tag as mentioned in the first warning. No?

[GeigerCounter]

@carlmjohnson We're tentatively working on this... At very least producing a deb and a ppa. No ETA on when that might happen, I'm afraid. See this pull:
#563

We're still testing and expanding that. In the meantime, we've got to get in touch with repo maintainers.