ERGO-Code
Are there plans to provide .deb, .rpm, ... library packages?
Since cmake makes it very easy to build .deb + .rpm packages I wonder if there are plans to release .deb, .rpm, ... libraries?
From my point of view (I maintain the current binaries https://github.com/ERGO-Code/HiGHS#download as part of the JuMP project in Julia and am not part of the HiGHS team):
Given the limited developer time of the core HiGHS team, I'd strongly recommend that they focus on HiGHS and leave packaging to the wider community. I don't think there are any technical reasons stopping someone else from doing it?
Yes there no technical reasons nor license reasons, stopping anyone to upload the packaged versions. However, it would seam beneficial to coordinate first.
Or to put in a different way, I can try to get them into the corresponding repos since this would make my r-package development easier (on the CRAN side I would only be responsible for the code I wrote not also for the code HiGHS). But it would only make sense to do so if there not already plans in place for that and thats what I am asking currently about. :)
We have no plans to provide these packages so you won't be duplicating any activity by developing them yourself. If they are useful for you then they may be for others, so contributing them is most welcome, thanks.
