On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 7:40 AM, Scott Deboy <[email protected]> wrote: > The benefit of webstart is updates are automatically downloaded and > installed. The link actually tries to check jars each time you start the > app and will update automatically if there are new ones.
yes understood. Does the user (i am a webstart noob) always need to click on our webpage to start the app? And, do we actually bypass the mirror system here or am I wrong with my assumption? Not sure if that is really relevant because I don't know about the user base Cheers Christian > Scott > > > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Christian Grobmeier <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Scott Deboy <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > I think the gotcha there had something to do with making sure the jnlp >> > file mapping was correctly supported. It has been about eight years, but >> > that is my recollection. >> > >> > That and the stupid maven template support would not allow us to use an >> > image as the link (a 'launch' webstart graphical button as the link) >> >> >> Is there something speaking against downloading an exe/dmg/zip via the >> usual download system? >> Or is webstart the killer feature for chainsaw? :-) >> >> Cheers >> >> >> >> > >> > Scott >> > >> > >> > >> > On Jun 20, 2012, at 2:46 AM, Christian Grobmeier <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> > >> >> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 7:07 AM, Ralph Goers >> >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I believe all the hard work on the logging site is completed however >> >>> some of the sub projects are yet to be published. I would like to have >> >>> infra convert loggingtest.apache.org to logging.apache.org but I don't >> >>> want >> >>> to get 404s on those sub projects. >> >>> >> >>> I looked at chainsaw and the download page will certainly break if I >> >>> were to just copy the content. I'm not sure about the others. >> >>> >> >>> Any ideas? >> >> >> >> Just added log4cxx to loggingtest.a.o. Its using the download script >> >> which generates a list of mirrors so no problem here. In addition I >> >> completed the branding requirements for log4cxx so we can leave that >> >> untouched for a while now. >> >> >> >> I am not sure on the chainsaw one. It seems to bypass the mirroring >> >> system which is kind a bad. Instead we should change the site to use >> >> the download script imho. Maybe Scott can comment here. >> >> >> >> That being said, the chainsaw site needs an appropriate footer. >> >> Basically the maven.vm template could be used in chainsaw too. So we >> >> have 2 tasks here, update to branding and use the mirror system. >> >> >> >> cheers >> >> Christian >> >> >> >>> >> >>> Ralph >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> http://www.grobmeier.de >> >> https://www.timeandbill.de >> >> >> >> -- >> http://www.grobmeier.de >> https://www.timeandbill.de > > -- http://www.grobmeier.de https://www.timeandbill.de
