Remove Chocolatey releases
galargh opened this issue · comments
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- My issue is specific & actionable.
- I am not suggesting a protocol enhancement.
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Description
Similarly to #8688, let's consider removing Kubo from Chocolatey: https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/go-ipfs
I think it would be nice to nudge people away from removed distribution channels, so they are not stuck on old versions.
My vote is to create a binary that exits with error code 1 and prints a message that informs the user to use official binaries from https://dist.ipfs.tech#kubo (or https://hub.docker.com/r/ipfs/kubo/).
It would be then published to chocolatey, snap (#8688) and any other place we want to shut down.
I agree that creating such a binary provides a much better UX. With the creds you gave me I should be able to do that for snap now and I plan to use creds set up in https://github.com/ipfs/choco-go-ipfs to do the same for chocolatey.
Here's the plan for completing this issues:
- Disable automatic Chocolatey releases (ipfs/choco-go-ipfs#3)
- Prepare workflow which can produce a binary with information about Chocolatey deprecation (https://github.com/galargh/kubo/actions/workflows/dist.yml)
- Build Kubo "v0.17.0" which only prints information about Chocolatey deprecation (https://github.com/galargh/kubo/actions/runs/3275228550)
- Update download paths in the Chocolatey releaser (ipfs/choco-go-ipfs#4)
- Wait for the Kubo v0.17.0 release
- Release to Chocolatey
- Archive https://github.com/ipfs/choco-go-ipfs
Here's the proposed deprecation text:
Kubo is not distributed through Chocolatey anymore (https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/issues/9341).
Please download Kubo from https://dist.ipfs.tech/#kubo.
Kubo is no longer distributed through Chocolatey.