On 3/29/06, Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/29/06, Sandy McArthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 3/29/06, Rahul Akolkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Or maybe we should simply advertise the dependencies pages better? > > > > Dependencies should be listed on the download page. The mind set of > > someone wanting to to use a component is and I know this from having > > done it a dozen or so times: > > I've come to believe that dependencies should be included in the > distribution. Also that we shouldn't bother with binary and source > distributions anymore; be like tapestry/hivemind (I think they're the > ones) and have just the one dist file.
I'm almost cool with that. I'd be happy with a full download (binary.jar, sources, docs, etc) and just the raw binary.jar 85% of the time downloading the binary distrobution is just an extra step to get to what I want: the binary.jar > > 1. Find the component's site. > > 2. Find the download link on the site. > > 3. See want they want to download (src/bin, tar/zip) > > 4. Unpack > > 5. Find the jar and add it to their project. > > > > Step #3 is where we have the most cranial activity available to us and > > we should take advantage of that. Any other step and the end user is > > just going through the motions trying to get their work done with as > > little effort as possible. > > Agreed. > > Hen > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Sandy McArthur "He who dares not offend cannot be honest." - Thomas Paine --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
