+1 release the manuals On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I don't really think this requires a vote since I've just repackaged > existing distributions (see buildfile at the end of the mail for > details), but it won't hurt. > > In <http://people.apache.org/~bodewig/manual/> there are ZIP and > tar.gz/bz2 files containing the manuals of the releases 1.6.5 to 1.8.1. > The contents are similar to the manual tarballs that will be created by > the distribution target in trunk's build.xml. > > I'd like to release those to the public, so please cast your vote: > > [ ] +1 release them > [ ] 0 don't care > [ ] -1 no, don't release them > > The plan is to create a manual directory inside Ant's distribution area > right next to the source and binaries directories and copy over all > files from <http://people.apache.org/~bodewig/manual/>. In addition I'd > create -current symlinks just like we have for source and binaries. > > Once the mirrors have picked up all files I'd delete the archives for > 1.6.5 to 1.8.0 so they remain on archives.apache.org only. > > Furthermore I'll add a new download page for the manual and link to it > from the cover page ("if you are looking for an older version ...") and > the API docs page ("if you are looking for javadocs ...") of the Ant > website. > > Stefan > > PS: this is how I created the files, most of it stolen from trunk's > build.xml. > > <project> > <mkdir dir="work"/> > <macrodef name="checksums-mvn" description="only md5 and sha1 are needed for > the maven directory structure"> > <element name="resources" implicit="true"/> > <sequential> > <checksum algorithm="md5"> > <resources/> > </checksum> > <checksum algorithm="sha1"> > <resources/> > </checksum> > </sequential> > </macrodef> > <macrodef name="checksums"> > <element name="resources" implicit="true"/> > <sequential> > <checksums-mvn> > <resources/> > </checksums-mvn> > <checksum fileext=".sha512" algorithm="sha-512"> > <resources/> > </checksum> > </sequential> > </macrodef> > <macrodef name="get-and-zip"> > <attribute name="version"/> > <sequential> > <get > src="http://archive.apache.org/dist/ant/binaries/apache-a...@{version}-bin.tar.bz2"; > dest="work"/> > <untar src="work/apache-a...@{version}-bin.tar.bz2" dest="work" > compression="bzip2"/> > <mkdir dir="work/manual"/> > <zip destfile="work/manual/apache-a...@{version}-manual.zip"> > <zipfileset dir="work/apache-a...@{version}/docs/manual" > prefix="apache-a...@{version}"/> > <zipfileset file="work/apache-a...@{version}/NOTICE" > prefix="apache-a...@{version}"/> > </zip> > <tar longfile="gnu" > destfile="work/manual/apache-a...@{version}-manual.tar"> > <tarfileset dir="work/apache-a...@{version}/docs/manual" > prefix="apache-a...@{version}"/> > <tarfileset file="work/apache-a...@{version}/NOTICE" > prefix="apache-a...@{version}"/> > </tar> > <gzip destfile="work/manual/apache-a...@{version}-manual.tar.gz" > src="work/manual/apache-a...@{version}-manual.tar"/> > <bzip2 destfile="work/manual/apache-a...@{version}-manual.tar.bz2" > src="work/manual/apache-a...@{version}-manual.tar"/> > <delete file="work/manual/apache-a...@{version}-manual.tar"/> > </sequential> > </macrodef> > <get-and-zip version="1.6.5"/> > <get-and-zip version="1.7.0"/> > <get-and-zip version="1.7.1"/> > <get-and-zip version="1.8.0"/> > <get-and-zip version="1.8.1"/> > <checksums> > <fileset dir="work/manual/"> > <exclude name="**/*.asc"/> > <exclude name="**/*.md5"/> > <exclude name="**/*.sha1"/> > <exclude name="**/*.sha512"/> > </fileset> > </checksums> > </project> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org > >
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