Hi Danushka, We have to agree what is the unit of sharing in our platform. I am think that is the component, and if so, adding the component should be good enough to install something. If feature is the unit of sharing, what you say do make sense.
--Srinath On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Danushka Menikkumbura <danus...@wso2.com> wrote: >> a) it is your responsibility! >> b) we have to fix this. Installing means adding the component, nothing >> else. > > OK. Let me give you an example. > > If you use an installer that comes with a piece of software to install it, > you do not have to worry about copying libraries or configuration files, > adding registry entries, etc as it takes care of all that. But if you are > smart enough you can go do all that yourself but you are responsible for > mistakes made in any of those steps. > > Similarly in Carbon, if you get the feature manager to install a feature, it > takes care of all that. If you happened to do it yourself you should do what > it takes without making any mistakes. In fact in this particular case, it > had nothing to do with configuration files but the latest qpid libraries > were not used. > > I can continued to argue on this but it will not help anybody whatsoever. So > if everybody thinks embedding configuration files is the way to go then I > will look into it. > > But I think we have a fundamental issue in the way we build products. We > manually copy stuff (mostly configuration files) from the generated carbon > distribution to the product pack we build. As I learned from Pradeep the > generated carbon distribution contains all that should go into the product. > > Thanks, > Danushka > > > -- ============================ Srinath Perera, Ph.D. Senior Software Architect, WSO2 Inc. Visiting Faculty, University of Moratuwa Member, Apache Software Foundation Research Scientist, Lanka Software Foundation Blog: http://srinathsview.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Carbon-dev mailing list Carbon-dev@wso2.org http://mail.wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/carbon-dev
