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I'm reading through the directions that Korosh wrote up about his start
and I'm not sure that building from CVS is the right way to go. It has
been my experience that the more steps you put between getting to know
an application and running the application the fewer people take
interest. Downloading, versus building, seems a bit easier, not to
mention less error prone given that the CVS code will have more unknown
bugs than a release with known issues.
So I was going to suggest picking, and then linking to DPML.net, the
distribution of Merlin we want people to use. The "current" symlink here :
http://www.dpml.net/merlin/distributions/?M=D
points at the 3.0 version. Since I see two revs (3.1, 3.2) more, I'm
assuming that this may be a bit dated, but I don't know. Latest looks
like a better option, but that may be too cutting edge.
I guess I'm looking for the version is being supported and suggested.
I'm assuming it's 3.2 by the docs here :
http://avalon.apache.org/merlin/starting/installation/index.html
If so, should we remove the links to the older version(s)? And why
aren't the downloads being hosted on Apache's site?
Also, what's the reasoning for suggesting Merlin over other containers?
~ Currently, the wiki here :
http://wiki.apache.org/avalon/AvalonFAQ
has a link to "Woah! So many containers! Which should I use!" and that
links to the Container FAQ :
http://wiki.apache.org/avalon/AvalonContainerFAQ
Which, amongst alot of other data, does have a section on which
container to choose. Since we're trying to just introduce people to
Avalon, and I assume we recommend despite it's "beta nature" (according
to the Container FAQ), what are the reasons for that? I'd like to
include a little blurb about why, but it's not crucial.
Anyway, I'm folding this all into the AvalonForBeginners node, so any
data you've got will be helpful. I'm also going to throw in a note
about "INSTALL THE MERLIN PLUGINS INTO MAVEN" since that bit me as well
as another guy in just the past few days.
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Matt Reynolds
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