I think you have misunderstood what I meant by that entirely, as by "the build system in general to always generate the release style artifacts" I meant exactly what you are suggesting, that the build system should be modified to generate something we can simply take a (partial) tarball of and end up with what we release...ie release style. The reason there is anything else in place right now is that they arent, IMO.
Robbie > -----Original Message----- > From: Rafael Schloming [mailto:rafa...@redhat.com] > Sent: 09 December 2009 19:38 > To: dev@qpid.apache.org > Subject: Re: Release artifacts > > Robbie Gemmell wrote: > > I can see what you are saying and thus agree that it would be > beneficial for the build system in general to always generate the > release style artifacts. However I don't see that this means we > shouldn't use what we have at our disposal now in order to give our > users a better experience than we currently are. > > I'm saying more than just always generate the release style artifacts, > they need to be generated in such a way that starting up a devel server > is using the same scripting and artifacts that the end user encounters > when they attempt the same sort of exercise from the release tarball. > Moreover I'm saying that there should be no such thing as "release > style > artifacts", only build artifacts, and the various release tarballs > should simply be archives (either whole or in part) of the build > artifacts. > > And on top of all this it needs to be simple, fast, and properly do > incremental builds so that it's actually usable for those of us who > have > chosen not to participate in this passing IDE fad. ;) > > I don't want to seem discouraging, I agree with your goals, I'm just > particular about how we get there and I'm not eager to pile another > quick hack on top of things. Doing all this without hacks shouldn't be > terribly difficult as long as we figure out what we want first and > choose something sensible. > > --Rafael > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Apache Qpid - AMQP Messaging Implementation > Project: http://qpid.apache.org > Use/Interact: mailto:dev-subscr...@qpid.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- Apache Qpid - AMQP Messaging Implementation Project: http://qpid.apache.org Use/Interact: mailto:dev-subscr...@qpid.apache.org
