Support #20838
Updated by Peter Amstutz 10 months ago
End users generally install from PyPi or Rubygems instead of using OS packages for client tools. This is because the OS packages have more friction: they require setting up the Arvados package repository and being root in order to install.
Meanwhile, building client packages for older OS versions with older Python/Ruby interpreters is a hassle. For example, a Python dependency drops support for an out-of-support Python (e.g. 3.6) then we have to pin an older version, fork the package, or resolve it some other way.
This is less of a problem for services -- we don't have any services that use Python, and our installer installs a specific Ruby version using rvm.
Specifically, this includes
* python3-arvados-python-client
* python3-arvados-cwl-runner
* python3-arvados-fuse
I think that might be it?
Tasks:
# Announce that the client OS packages will no longer be published
# Remove them from the build scripts
# Update the documentation to only provide instructions to install from PyPi