Sounds good to me although I'm a bit short on time lately to help out with it, are there any Apache protocols we need to be aware of?
Scott On 20/10/2007, Jacopo Cappellato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It seems that the original thread has been hijacked by the Linux > enthusiasts :-) so I'm restarting it now from here. > > Here is the content of the original message: > > I think that we should provide an easy way to download (by ftp) a > compressed archive to the ones that are just interested in evaluating > the product. *Minimal* prerequisites should be necessary to download and > run OFBiz in this way so that users with a low bandwidth connection to > the Internet, and running on a box with Jdk 1.5 installed would be able > to download (possibly in multiple chunks) a compressed archive, unpack > it and run "ant run-install". > > Of course, as soon as the version 4.0 will be officially released, they > will have a file to download; however I don't think that the release 4.0 > will be the right version to consider for an evaluation... the trunk is > the best option and we should encourage people to see it in action. > > A simple solution is this: create a weekly or, better (as suggested by > Jacques), monthly svn snapshot (svn export), then compress it and > publish it somewhere in a very visible area of the main page of the > website; we could also provide a link to the "main new features of the > month" (e.g. http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/-Qs). > > What do you think? > > Jacopo > > >
