Hi, 2012/5/8 Rupert Westenthaler <[email protected]>: > On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Fabian Christ > <[email protected]> wrote: > Users that do want to use Stanbol artifacts will typically not need > any data bundles. > Users that want to run a Stanbol server will most likely the stable or > Full launcher. So they will also not be affected by this. > > So only users that want to install a additional bundle (e.g. the > german POS model) and users that want to configure their own launcher > will be affected by this. > > Can we provide the data bundles as convenience binary download on the > Stanbol webpage? Maybe we could prepare a script similar to the > "apache-stanbol-0.9.0-incubating-deps" so that users can easily > download and install the data bundles to the local repository.
+1, this is exactly what I also had in mind. >> The launchers are excluded because IMO the Maven central repository is >> not meant to be used for such artifacts. We could prepare a launcher >> based on the 0.9.0-incubating release and offer it as a convenience >> binary download on our website. >> > > +1 assuming that this will replace the link to the IKS dev server? Yes. Once we have our own launchers prepared, we can remove the link to dev.iks. > I would suggest: > > * to include the download of the most current source release directly > to the main download page +1, I will add that. > * for the link to the maven central repository you could use > > http://search.maven.org/#search|ga|1|g:"org.apache.stanbol" > > as this should directly show the list of all Stanbol artifacts. +1, I will change that. > * the link to the launchers still points to a page that links to the > IKS dev server. I think this will be replaced with a page referring to > files that are hosted at Apache, right? Yes. > * add downloads for the data bundles (if possible) +1 > * could we also use the Stanbol homepage to provide binary artifacts > of some of the demonstrations.e.g. the artifacts of the ehealth demo > currently available under > http://dev.iks-project.eu/downloads/stanbol-indices/ehealth/. IMO we can do that. We just have to ensure that we separate such convenience downloads from our official source releases. I have to figure out where such kind of download could be placed on the apache server. I am not sure if the www.apache.org/dist folders can be used for this because the site says: "The directories linked below contain current software releases from the Apache Software Foundation projects." And such binaries are not software releases by definition. -- Fabian http://twitter.com/fctwitt
