Well, as soon as IzPack 3.8 goes final, it should be in Maven -- the previous release is. I would be happy to make that a condition of Geronimo 1.0, but I don't think it's necessary for M5.
It's fine with me if the installer is build by unpacking the assembly zip. Aaron On 10/2/05, David Jencks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think there are a couple of issues: > 1. It is a really lot of work to run the tck, and I'm not up for doing > it again for a while. I would prefer to find a way to claim that the > geronimo installer is covered by the tests run on the zip distro. I > would be quite happy claiming this if the installer was built by > unpacking the zip into the installer directory rather than copying > all/most of the files. It's probably fine if we build the installer > using the same assembly directory, but I'd like some other opinions on > this. > > 2. Related to the above, we should build the installer on the same > assembly module copy as the zip. That's one of David Blevin's > machines, so he should do it. > > > > Also, if we can distribute our own Axis, I'm sure we can distribute > > our own IzPack. But really, I don't think there's a compelling need > > to, since no one needs IzPack to install or run the product. (Also, > > you say you couldn't get a copy for yourself, but that's only because > > the download was troublesome for you, right? If I had a nickel for > > every time ibiblio crapped out... :) > > Ibiblio sometimes has problems, but it is a well known well advertised > site with automated downloads and usually works fine. Stuff available > from it has at least theoretically been officially released by its > authors. The current version of izpack is on a secret site that you > need a password for and that in my experience has not yet worked. It > has not been officially released and I have no idea how it was built. > I'm not sure how much of an issue I have with this for M5 but I really > don't want to continue this state of affairs through the next release. > I think izpack has to be run from maven. > > Anyone else have an opinion? > > thanks > david jencks > > > > Aaron > > > > On 10/2/05, David Jencks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> On Oct 2, 2005, at 8:00 AM, Aaron Mulder wrote: > >> > >>> Cool. Can you publish a candidate installer, too? > >> > >> well, I'm not sure. I see two potential problems, aside from being > >> too > >> tired right now to put it together :-) > >> > >> 1. We aren't set up to certify it, how would we make it clear that the > >> installer version wasn't certified? Or is it certified??? I'd prefer > >> to find a way to certify the installer based version. I think it > >> would > >> be easy to build the installer using maven, but I'm not sure about > >> unpacking/running it to get something to test. If we found a way to > >> make the installer include the certified zip distribution and just > >> unpack it and change the config.* files I don't think this would be an > >> issue. Maybe it's ok to claim the installer is certified if it is > >> built from the same assembly as the zip. I'm just not sure. > >> > >> 2. It's built with unreleased software that I at least couldn't get > >> for > >> myself. I suppose that we could include a copy of the installer kit > >> version we use, as we have included a copy of axis. > >> > >> Anyway I hope we can figure out a way to answer these questions so we > >> can put out a installer version. > >> > >> thanks > >> david jencks > >> > >>> > >>> Thanks, > >>> Aaron > >>> > >>> On 10/2/05, Geir Magnusson Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>> (just making it clear for others) > >>>> > >>>> +1 from me > >>>> > >>>> Thanks everyone for the incredible work to make this happen. > >>>> > >>>> geir > >>>> > >>>> On Oct 2, 2005, at 8:15 AM, David Jencks wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> The 1.0-M5 branch passed all the tck tests, so David Blevins and I > >>>>> have tagged geronimo and openejb and built a candidate 1.0-M5 zip. > >>>>> We are running the tck on this. > >>>>> > >>>>> The zip is available for testing at > >>>>> > >>>>> http://people.apache.org/~dblevins/geronimo-1.0-M5.zip > >>>>> > >>>>> We'd like to call for a vote on a release based on this tag > >>>>> conditional on the tck passing (again). I think the process would > >>>>> be that after the vote we would work on publishing the jars, this > >>>>> zip distribution, and a source distribution. > >>>>> > >>>>> Many thanks, > >>>>> david jencks > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> Geir Magnusson Jr +1-203-665-6437 > >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >> > >> > > > >
