Re: [all] What's in a distribution?

2007-01-03 Thread Rahul Akolkar
On 1/2/07, Henri Yandell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip/ I dislike the website being put in the distributions. It's a cheap way to think you're documenting your project; but having the documentation in there is good. I think the solution to this part is to make our websites leaner (by moving

Re: [all] What's in a distribution?

2007-01-03 Thread Henri Yandell
On 1/3/07, Rahul Akolkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/2/07, Henri Yandell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip/ I dislike the website being put in the distributions. It's a cheap way to think you're documenting your project; but having the documentation in there is good. I think the solution to

Re: [all] What's in a distribution?

2007-01-03 Thread Rahul Akolkar
On 1/3/07, Henri Yandell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip/ Part of all that would be to take the common information out of the component sites and into a Jakarta page for that component. Much like the download section currently. The tricky part is one of lf, it's very odd to jump out of a site and

[all] What's in a distribution?

2007-01-02 Thread Dennis Lundberg
Hi I've been looking at creating distributions for commons logging using Maven 2. So I did some reading on ASF policy regarding distributions and poked around in different commons components, to see if I could find a least common denominator. Unfortunately I haven't. So I've got a couple of

Re: [all] What's in a distribution?

2007-01-02 Thread Craig McClanahan
I will opine a bit based on what I have personally done historically on Commons projects, plus some thoughts on what we're currently doing in Shale[1] that might prove to be of interest (and/or a source of ideas on how to do it). On 1/2/07, Dennis Lundberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I've

Re: [all] What's in a distribution?

2007-01-02 Thread Henri Yandell
On 1/2/07, Dennis Lundberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I've been looking at creating distributions for commons logging using Maven 2. So I did some reading on ASF policy regarding distributions and poked around in different commons components, to see if I could find a least common denominator.

Re: [all] What's in a distribution?

2007-01-02 Thread Stephen Colebourne
Dennis Lundberg wrote: 1. What should a source distribution include? Two things: - commons-foo-1.0.jar - the binary jar - The entire svn tree for the project I include the binary jar file in the source distribution as I want to ensure that the maximum number of people possible get the

Re: [all] What's in a distribution?

2007-01-02 Thread Craig McClanahan
On 1/2/07, Henri Yandell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I dislike the website being put in the distributions. It's a cheap way to think you're documenting your project; but having the documentation in there is good. I think the solution to this part is to make our websites leaner (by moving things

Re: [all] What's in a distribution?

2007-01-02 Thread luc . maisonobe
Stephen Colebourne wrote: I include the binary jar file in the source distribution as I want to ensure that the maximum number of people possible get the genuine binary jar as created by us and no-one else (eg. minimises JDK1.3 vs JDK1.6 issues) [snip] I include the source zip in the