Goals

The sbt-native-packager is taking the following approach towards design goals:

• Create hooks for packaging applications in a native (or universal) fashion using platform-specific tools, such as:
  • Windows Installer XML and MSIs
  • RPMs and YUM
  • Debian package manager
  • generic tar/zip
  • Macintosh App bundles Not implemented
• Create an abstraction layer where a common set of definitions can be used to define a Java/Scala package, and is mapped into the underlying settings for each tool.
  • Define a "universal" zip/tgz layout
  • Define necessary settings, and generic mappings into MSI/DEB/RPM
• Create application archetypes which generate default scripts and layouts for projects that match a particular pattern. These can be used to auto-package your project for various environments. Example archetypes include:
  • Server (Play web application, Akka server, etc.). this includes init.d style scripts and/or windows service hooks.
  • Command line utility (sbt, giter8, etc.). This includes launcher scripts, via BAT or BASH.