On 7 February 2012 23:26, Konstantin Kolinko <knst.koli...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2012/2/8 Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com>: >> On Feb 7, 2012, at 16:49, Mladen Turk <mt...@apache.org> wrote: >> >>> On 02/07/2012 10:20 PM, Gary Gregory wrote: >>>> On Feb 7, 2012, at 15:03, Mladen Turk<mt...@apache.org> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 02/07/2012 08:16 PM, Gary Gregory wrote: >>>>>> On the topic of Maven: it seems of odd to have EXEs in a ZIP file, the >>>>>> EXEs, like JAR files, should just be there, ready to be downloaded and >>>>>> used >>>>>> as-is. Unless I am missing something. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Please do not hijack vote thread for technical discussions. >>>> >>>> The vote states "note that starting with this release, the windows >>>> binaries are in the maven repo, finally :)" >>>> >>>> IMO the new artifacts can and should be discussed for the reasons I >>>> outlined. >>>> >>> >>> Those are not new artifacts. Previously I manually created bin-windows.zip >>> Now its build with assembly/win.xml. So what's the fuzz? >> >> I think that I should ask in a Jira that exes be available in maven >> instead of a zip of exes. That seems like it would be better for the >> process. >> >> Thoughts? >> > > If > 1) the executable is not called "unzip.exe" and > 2) you are not going to start it "as is" from where it has been downloaded > > then I would prefer it to be packed in a zip file. > > I see the following benefits: > > 1. If the file hes been truncated I would expect some error while > unpacking it. With an exe you would not have such a warning.
However, the hashes and sigs would provide a check that the download has been successful. > 2. The zip file takes less space on my hard drive and downloads faster. Actually, it's slightly bigger than the win32 versions + the text files; it is smaller if you include the ia64 and amd64 exes. But it's certainly easier to download a single zip than 2 exes+ 3 source files. > 3. The number of artifacts is lesser. In commons-daemon there are 4 > exe files: 2 main exes + 2 additional variants of one of them for > other CPU architectures. It is better to download all them at once (or > the pair for your CPU) rather than each exe separately. There will be > no need for separate md5 and asc files for each of exe's. Otherwise, I agree with you. Also, the zip includes N&L files and release notes. > Best regards, > Konstantin Kolinko > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
