On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Simon Laws <simonsl...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Mike Edwards
> <mike.edwards.inglen...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 30/01/2011 10:08, ant elder wrote:
>>>
>>> Please review and vote on RC2 of the Java SCA 2.0 Beta2 release.
>>>
>>> The artifacts are at:
>>>
>>> http://people.apache.org/~antelder/tuscany/2.0-beta2-RC2/
>>>
>>> The release tag is at:
>>>
>>> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tuscany/sca-java-2.x/tags/2.0-Beta2-RC2
>>>
>>> Here's my +1
>>>
>>> ...ant
>>>
>> Folks,
>>
>> At the moment, in this release, the basic samples don't work with the binary
>> distribution.
>>
>> If you follow the instructions in the README, neither Ant nor Maven ways of
>> running the samples such as getting-started\helloworld-contribution actually
>> work.
>>
>> Currently, Maven fails because the layout of the POM files in the
>> distribution does not match the expected layout in the POMs themselves.
>> Meanwhile the Ant build.xml file is completely missing.
>>
>> I think that we need to fix things so that the samples work out of the box
>> with the binary distribution.
>>
>>
>> Yours, Mike.
>>
>
> Maybe then, before RC3, we should take a step back and make sure we're
> happy with the way we expect users to run samples and the way that
> samples are documented.
>
> For running samples there should be a consistent default way for
> running samples. Ant? Maven? something else? This should be true
> regardless of the wealth of mechanisms we describe in the
> running-tuscany samples.
>
> We have moved the sample documentation to the web site. As an aside
> need to move our website to the new content management thing. While I
> like having the instructions in HTML form I don't think having them
> separate from each sample has worked out very well.
>
> Simon
>
I agree we need to do a lot more work on the samples but that will
take a fair bit of time so i'd be in favour of continuing to do
releases of what we have already while those sample improvements
happen.
...ant
