[Suggestion] Downloadable installation scripts

[lukebakken]

What would you like to suggest for a future version of RabbitMQ?

Related to - #15076

I've had a nice experience installing Rust while working on this PR to add rabbitmqadmin-ng to the community docker image. That project provides a one-size-fits-all installation script that a user can download to install the Rust toolchain on their machine.

Any opinions on providing something similar for RabbitMQ?

[michaelklishin]

A rustup-like tool should be possible for RabbitMQ with some reasonable assumptions (e.g. how to provision on Windows).

[lukebakken]

I'm thinking about using the rustup-init.sh script as a starting point, and targeting the low-hanging fruit - i.e. deb and rpm-based distros, x86_64 and aarch64 targets.

[michaelklishin]

Those two package types plus Windows would be a good start. macOS is arguably covered by Homebrew well.

[lukebakken]

I'd say Windows is covered by Chocolatey and Scoop... I use the latter for Erlang and RabbitMQ on Windows these days.

[michaelklishin]

OK, I guess a Linux-oriented installer would be appreciated by some folks.