Jörn Kottmann (JIRA) wrote: > [ > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-1479?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12740135#action_12740135 > ] > > Jörn Kottmann commented on UIMA-1479: > ------------------------------------- > > I would love to learn what add-on packaging actually means ? > > UIMA AS runs usually on a server and maybe it makes sense to optimize its > packaging for this purpose. >
The add-on idea is shorthand for saying that uima-as binary distribution would not include the base uima jars - those would need to be downloaded separately. Maybe this is not such a good idea, if those jars are only a few megabytes... We currently do not distribute the uima-base source in the uima-as source distribution (with a few exceptions). > In my case I just grab the distribution file and unarchive it, install an AE > and deploy the installed AE. > On some setups its distributed with rsync between a few servers, which right > now takes quite a while > because there are many things in the distribution which are not needed on a > server e.g. eclipse plugins, > examples, tools, html and pdf documentation, etc. > There are also many scripts which makes using it a bit confusing, because > most of them are not needed > e.g. scripts to start ui tools. > > We could have the UIMA AS eclipse plugins, documentation, samples in the main > distribution and maybe have a small UIMA AS runtime distribution as a > separate download which people deploy on their servers. > > I think there are definitely several use-cases. Would the above use case be served if we had one downloadable binary package with everything in it, but which had a layout where there was one part set up for deployment on the servers? -Marshall
