Hi all, Now that we have entered another release phase I think it would be a good time to discuss the release artifacts. I would like to see 0.6 ship with some updates to the artifacts we produce to make things more useful and obvious for our users.
The "Java broker, client, and tools" multi-component package appears to be just a copy of the etc/ lib/ and bin/ directories from the qpid/java/build/ dir after performing a build and this makes it quite messy. A lot of test configuration files are left in the etc/ dir and there are loads of jars in the lib/ dir, which make it very hard to know which is being used where or allow splitting them up easily. You also end up with jars that just aren't intended to be used from there (eg the eclipse-plugin used in the JMX Management Console releases). We have single component packages for the Java broker, client, and management tools so if we want a multi-component package including any of these I think we should simply bundle those up instead of just tarring the build folder and mashing everything together. Another result of the above is that QMan is shipped in the Java multi-component bundle despite the fact it is only useful if you have a C++ broker. I realise it is written in Java, but those packages don't seem to me like they should necessarily be language specific. If anything I would say that QMan should surely ship in the multi-component bundle along with the items it can actually be used with (ie the C++ broker and client bundle), or just be made available standalone (which it already is). Users aren't necessarily going to expect they need to download both multi-component packages to make use of everything contained in one of them, and as mentioned above, splitting QMan alone out of the java multi-component bundle would be a bit hideous and non obvious anyway. I would also like to see us tagging the source-only release artifacts with 'src', ie the C++ and the "full" release artifact that is just a copy of the entire repo. It isn't exactly helpful for a user to download the 50MB file then find out what they are looking for isn't actually in there. Robbie --------------------------------------------------------------------- Apache Qpid - AMQP Messaging Implementation Project: http://qpid.apache.org Use/Interact: mailto:dev-subscr...@qpid.apache.org
