Hi Ioannis,
I would not cancel this vote about that for three reasons:
1/ the minimal distribution requiring a connection and cannot boot
offline has been discussed and validated. It was one of the purpose to
use pax-url-aether. It's exactly like a Unix minimal distribution: when
you start Ubuntu minimal, it will start the bootstrap and download only
deb package from Internet. It's exactly the purpose of Karaf minimal
distribution.
2/ the minimal distribution didn't exist in Karaf 2.3.x, so we can't
consider that as a regression.
3/ agree that the featuresBoot for minimal distribution should be more
"minimal". I would keep config, kar, management, but I would remove ssh
and region for instance.
Minimal distribution is like this since 3.0.0.RC1 (it's not something
that we changed for 3.0.0).
That's why we should keep the vote running.
Regarding the minimal distribution:
1/ the minimal purpose is the one that we planned, so I would keep it
like this, including downloading bundles/features at bootstrap (again as
a Unix minimal distribution)
2/ if users want create a distribution on top of minimal, they can do
that and populate the repo with the Karaf Maven plugin.
3/ I'm not against to create a new "distribution" like a minimal
shipping the bundles in the system repository, but I don't see a huge
plus value for that.
WDYT ?
Regards
JB
On 12/23/2013 01:42 PM, Ioannis Canellos wrote:
I see two problems here:
i) The bootFeatures in the minimal distro contain more features than it should.
ii) The minimal distro cannot boot offline (even if I remove all the
features that shouldn't be there).
I think that that the minimal distribution should be able to boot up,
without requiring access to any external repository. For extra
features (e.g. http, spring etc), yes I agree they should be get
downloaded from an external repo, but that should not be the case for
the boot stuff.
Shipping a 16 MB minimal distro, that cannot boot offline, is wrong imho.
I don't mind changing my vote to a +0, its just that in the past we
considered similar issues show stoppers and that's why I gave it a -1.
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