Patches welcome! Kalle
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Erik Beeson <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 from me for full built downloads (as I write this from a transatlantic > flight). > > --Erik > > > On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Les Hazlewood <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Sounds good to me. >> >> As a side note though, one of the things that is nice about a binary, >> non-source package is that I can download everything local to disk >> without needing to be connected to the internet to view documentation >> and reference .jars as a I need them. >> >> I think it would be nice to create such a package for our next >> release. This is the reason for example, why Spring has a >> spring-3.0.2-with-dependencies.zip and a spring-3.0.2-with-docs.zip. >> When I wasn't a Maven or Ant+Ivy user, I really liked being able to >> have this 'one stop shop' download. >> >> How do other projects do this? I'm sure most of them don't have a >> 'use Maven or you'll have to everything on the internet' approach, >> right? >> >> Les >> >> >> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Alan D. Cabrera <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> > On Jun 3, 2010, at 2:24 PM, Kalle Korhonen wrote: >> > >> >> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Les Hazlewood <[email protected]> >> >> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> My suggestion last night that I couldn't formulate very well was >> >>> basically this: >> >>> 1. Unzip the 'official' source release. >> >>> 2. Build the project in its entirety from the .zip >> >>> 3. tarball up the built project (with target directories, etc) and >> >>> upload it to dist >> >>> 4. Untar it on dist >> >>> 5. Change the links on the dowload page to reference the dist target >> >>> locations. >> >>> Its not as clean as only uploading the raw .jars and .asc/.sha1/.md5 >> >>> files, but it is easily automated. If there is another mechanism that >> >>> easily allows us to automate upload of only what would be downloaded, >> >>> that'd be better. I'm in favor of whatever is easiest. >> >> >> >> Lots of unzipping, tarring and untarring there. I was merely going to >> >> put the zip and the keys and possibly the shiro-all there and be done >> >> with it. >> > >> > I'm thinking that since this is what was voted on and checked, this is >> what >> > we should run with. >> > >> > >> > Regards, >> > Alan >> > >> > >> >
