Re: Downloading OFBiz with minimal prerequisites WAS: [Re: Downloading OFBiz]

[David E Jones]

-David


On Oct 20, 2007, at 9:06 PM, Scott Gray wrote:

I think there is some ASF infra stuff for periodic automated builds, and if we do this we should definitely get something automated setup to reduce long term effort required...

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

it and run "ant run-install".


the best option and we should encourage people to see it in action.


Jacques), monthly svn snapshot (svn export), then compress it and
publish it somewhere in a very visible area of the main page of the

month" (e.g. http://docs.ofbiz.org/x/-Qs).

What do you think?

Jacopo

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 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 A simple solution is this: create a weekly or, better (as suggested by website; we could also provide a link to the "main new features of the

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