[QPID-5550] Simplify binding artifacts and build metadata

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Component/s: C++ Client, Packaging, Perl Client, Python Client
• Assignee: Darryl Pierce
• Reporter: Justin Ross
• Created: 11/Feb/14 14:21
• Updated: 06/Jan/16 15:11
• Resolved: 06/Jan/16 15:11

Description

Right now we build special tarballs for the perl and wrapped python bindings of the messaging api in the release.sh script.

First, what motivates this? Wouldn't be simpler from a packaging standpoint to simply build these when you build the C++ parts of the messaging api, using just the one cpp source tarball?

Second, this logic belongs in the cpp subtree, not in the release.sh script. We can call into any "make special dist variant" targets we may need from the release script.