I generally think that as a community we need to start taking an approach of separate thin client releases. This goes for Java, .NET, JDBC, ODBC, Node.JS, etc...
We can still host them in the same Ignite repo, but they should be a separate download. Of course, they should be included in the overall Ignite distribution as well. Node.JS client could be the first one to take this approach. We can then migrate others as well. Denis, Pavel, what do you think? D. On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 2:11 PM, Pavel Petroshenko <pa...@petroshenko.com> wrote: > As Denis said, there is no need to download the entire Ignite repo to > install the client. Once published the client is going to be installed by > users with a command: > > npm install -g apache-ignite-client > > The sources are going to be distributed as a part of the ignite repository, > yes. But in general, release and installation process for the client and > the Ignite technically are completely independent. > > And moreover: if there is a bug, especially critical, found in the client > we shouldn't wait for the next Ignite to be released to get it fixed. We > should be flexible enough to push the fixes and release the clients' > updates independently at any point in time. > > Having an independent release/versioning scheme would allow the clients to > get bug-fixes (minor version update) or nonbreaking feature-adds or > improvements (medium version update) between major Ignite releases > (potentially breaking changes and thus - the major version update). But the > client and the Ignite versions mapping might be tricky and should be > clearly documented. > > So there are pros and cons. > > But I believe the release policy should be consistent across all the Thin > clients (I'm not talking about the "native" or Thick ones, which heavily > depend on the Ignite internals and are a different story). > > p. > > > On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 1:44 PM, Denis Magda <dma...@apache.org> wrote: > > > Once the client is built it will be uploaded to the npmjs repository, > > right? So, a JS developer can download the client from there without > > touching the whole Ignite binary release. > > > > However, those who download the whole Ignite binary distribution will > find > > node.js there (as well as .NET, C++, JDBC and ODBC). > > > > -- > > Denis > > > > On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 1:06 PM, Dmitriy Setrakyan < > dsetrak...@apache.org> > > wrote: > > > > > On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 12:36 PM, Pavel Petroshenko < > > pa...@petroshenko.com > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Fair enough. Consistency with the other clients is a good argument. > > > > > > > > > > > Pavel, I would discuss it a bit more. Does it really make sense for a > > > node.js user to download the whole Ignite distribution just to get a > > > node.js client? > > > > > >
