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
>> >
>> >
>>
>

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