----- Original Message -----
From: "Vincent Massol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Craig R. McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 11:57 PM
Subject: Re: File directory structure for jakarta-commons
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Craig R. McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Vincent Massol"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 11:43 PM
> Subject: Re: File directory structure for jakarta-commons
>
> [snip]
> > > > I would still deliver one big bag, and let people get what they want
> > > > from that. Will make user support easier if you can ask which
nightly
> > > > or release the little part they have a problem with came from.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Yes, I get you but I guess I still feel awkward about enforcing a
> download
> > > of a few megs when my runtime jar is only 50 or so kilobytes ...
> > > Could we try with several files first (of course, each file either has
a
> > > version postfixed - for releases - or a date stamp - for nightlies -)
> and do
> > > a single zip later if we find problems with that ?
> > >
> > > > geir
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Vincent
> > >
> > >
> >
> > The Jakarta "tradition" is all-in-one distributions, and I think we
should
> > respect that for those who want it. (In addition, a source distro that
is
> > essentially a mirror of CVS is generally provided.)
> >
>
> ok. I'll align myself with this "tradition" :)
>
> > Because this subproject is designed to produce small independent JARs as
> > well, I think we should offer that *in addition* to the all-in-one
> > downloads.
> >
> > What I really don't want to see is the *lack* of an all-in-one download,
> > forcing me to make multiple downloads if I really do want everything.
> >
>
> ok. Thus, that would mean.
>
> 1)
>
www/jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-commons/release/commons-cactus/v1.0-b1
> /commons-cactus-1.0-b1.zip
> - that's the full disto excluding sources. Meaning it will contain :
> commons-cactus-22-1.0-b1.jar
> commons-cactus-23-1.0-b1.jar
> commons-cactus-ant-1.0-b1.jar
> commons-cactus-sample-22-1.0-b1.zip
> commons-cactus-sample-23-1.0-b1.zip
> commons-cactus-doc-22-1.0-b1.zip
> commons-cactus-doc-23-1.0-b1.zip
>
> Do you think I have to redo my build file to have a directory structure
> instead of zips or jars ? Like :
>
> commons-cactus
> |_ 22
> |_ doc
> |_ lib
> |_ sample
> |_ 23
> |_ doc
> |_ lib
> |_ sample
> |_ README
>
It makes more sense to have a directory structure. I'll do that. Geeze ... I
wanted to deliver tonight but it's already past midnight ... I'll have to
deliver tomorrow ... :)
> 2)
>
www/jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-commons/release/commons-cactus/v1.0-b1
> /commons-cactus-src-1.0-b1.zip
> - that's the sources
>
> 3)
>
www/jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-commons/release/commons-cactus/v1.0-b1
> /ant.zip
> - that's the prepackaged Ant application with the correct jars already in
> the lib directory. That's to help newcomers.
>
> Notice that I have removed the single distribution of jars. That's fine
with
> me.
>
> > Craig
> >
> Vincent
>
>
Vincent
