Frank Barnaby wrote:
Let's start with the examples.
Are you just talking about the "hello" example, or are you including the browser? In the original release the browser is treated as a tool, despite being in the com.sun.jini.example namespace.
Is it reasonable to place the examples tree in the top-level of the binary distribution (includes example src, doc, and jars)?
That's going to require quite a few changes to relative paths in hello files. The hello example documentation covers how to rebuild the example if you make edits, would the binary distribution support rebuilding the hello example?
If it is decided to locate the examples in the top-level of the binary distribution, I'd be tempted to do the same for the source distribution for the sake of consistency.
In the original build process, building "from the top" built the examples along with everything else. Would that be maintained, or would they become layered builds?
However, that would probably include removing the example tree from the depths of the source tree, which I seem to recall as an unresolved consideration in the past.
I think the main questions are what you want a build-from-the-top to do in the source distribution, and whether you do or don't want the .java sources for the examples in the same tree as all other sources. - Bob
