Re: [VOTE] minimal JSR 154 only distribution

[Remy Maucherat]

Glenn Nielsen wrote:

Jon Scott Stevens wrote:

on 2002/12/10 3:23 PM, "Glenn Nielsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Then we only have one download (perhaps large) but with a variety
of different installs.

Right now, I have to specially distribute Tomcat for Scarab. Instead, I want
one small download that I can point people at and tell them to copy their
scarab.war into. It should be a download which only contains code and data
that Scarab requires (which is a minimal JSR 154 container).

-jon

Right.  You need a distribution tailored for your use.  Others may have
slightly different dists they need. Where does it stop? Would we end up
with 2-3 dozen different distributions?  Tomcat can be used in so many
different ways that it can be very difficult for those devs who vote to
decide on how many dists there should be and what they should contain.

A single distribution with the most used components which included
ant with different install targets would be much more flexible.  Those
components not included with Tomcat could be installed by automating
retrieval and installation from a remote site.

This achieves your goal of being able to easily setup a servlet only
instance of Tomcat _and_ meets the requirement of only having one
distribution.

The contentious issue would be what components are bundled with
Tomcat and which can be installed but have to be retrieved from a
remote site.

I think this is a bad good idea.
That's more or less what the Windows installer does or could do, and that's good as that's what Windows users expect.

However, I doubt Unix people are used to or like installers and similar technologies.

Profiles look similar to how well known servers work, so I clearly favor that solution.

I think it would be time to do a wrap up vote.

Remy


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