On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 6:59 AM, Simon Nash <n...@apache.org> wrote: > Thanks for reviewing the checklist. See comments inline below. > > Simon > > Florian Moga wrote: >> >> The checklist is looking good until now. I think that if we want to >> enforce a consistent feel over the samples we should agree on build tool, >> dependencies and launcher before considering the checklist final. >> >> I would say let's stick with Maven for now, Apache Ant adds complexity and >> requires time to find an elegant way of writing a script which we don't >> afford now. > > I think we also need to show people how to build samples using the > binary distribution without needing to download additional modules. > This is the reason why we have previously provided ant scripts for > building the samples. I don't think it's necessary for every sample > to have an ant script, but at least some of them should have one. >
+1, we should definitely have a way to build run from the distribution. >> As for how dependencies are declared, you've got much more experience with >> Tuscany to weight the pros and cons for each approach but I think we should >> use the one we consider best practice and present that to the user. For me >> base+extensions seems to be the way to go as it looks more loosely coupled >> and there's been the big effort of adding that in Beta1. >> >> Regarding the launcher, I have already expressed my opinion a couple of >> times but haven't seen any comments so I guess we're fine with the shell? >> > This is probably OK for developers but it isn't suitable for deploying > or embedding Tuscany. I think it's important that we include ant scripts > for running some of the samples so that people know how to run Tuscany in > a production or embedded environment. > +1, we should have a way to demonstrate ho to build and/or run in production like environments, OSGi, etc I'll take a look at the wiki tonight and tomorrow and provide more feedback. -- Luciano Resende http://people.apache.org/~lresende http://twitter.com/lresende1975 http://lresende.blogspot.com/
