perfsonar development work

[Roman Lapacz <>]

Nicolas Simar wrote:
> Cesaroni Giovanni wrote:
> [snip]
> > > What are the drawbacks of such methods?
> > > Could it be a way of providing easy to install perfsonar 
> > > web-services or it will decrease their performances?
> >
> > The use of VMW has no particular drawbacks other than what Jochen said,
> > but I don't think it is a good solution:
> > all the sw is usually installed on a linux box by the package manager 
> > of the system (for debian apt-get, for red hat yum and so on) from a 
> > pakage (.deb, .rpm, ..) with just a command. It will be nice to have 
> > such a linux package of each perfsonar service.
>
> What is the difference with ANT currently used?


Ant is a build tool mainly for developers. I like all solutions noted 
(VM, pS linux distro, package systems). I remember that some time ago 
Jeff proposed to use RPM to distribute our services. We could consider 
to take package solution (usually well-known) for next pS release (we 
could start with rpm and deb).

Roman