Hola, >I'm planning to do the following changes to packaging: >- removing commons-launcher from the final distribution (I see little >use of it, since we have good scripts and native wrappers available); it >will stay as a dependency to launch stuff during the build process >- new release archives based on the contents of the "compat" folder, for >JRE 1.4 users (the default distributions will be for JRE 5.0) >- new release archives for the admin webapp (= not in the main archive; >not everyone uses it, and it's quite large) >- the Windows installer will remain the same for now (= an offline >installer), as I don't see how to make it an online installer and still >respect the mirror scheme we use
What does that leave us with in terms of distros? Let me try: [Source distros, same as today] - jakarta-tomcat-5.5.0-src.zip - jakarta-tomcat-5.5.0-src.tar.gz [Binary distros] - jakarta-tomcat-5.5.0.zip - for JRE 5.0, no Admin - jakarta-tomcat-5.5.0.tar.gz - for JRE 5.0, no Admin - jakarta-tomcat-5.5.0.exe - for Windows, JRE 5.0, no Admin - jakarta-tomcat-5.5.0-jre14.zip - for JRE 1.4, no Admin - jakarta-tomcat-5.5.0-jre14.tar.gz - for JRE 1.4, no Admin - jakarta-tomcat-5.5.0-jre14.exe - for Windows JRE 1.4, no Admin + another one for each of the above with Admin? Maybe we should have admin separately, i.e. jakarta-tomcat-5.5.0-admin.war (complete with META-INF/context.xml), that users can just drop into their webapps directory? I'd rather have that than 6 more binary distributions. What about dropping .tar.gz distros? I realize its files are smaller than zip, but every platform has zip support and I doubt many of our users (who are mostly developers for companies or open-source afficionadoes) are on dialup connections. Alternatively (this is what JonAS has done for example) we could just have .tgz files which the Windows Winzip can handle. This saves the release manager work and reduces user confusion slightly, as they are faced with less download choices. I see the latter (user confusion) increasing when we have JRE1.4 and JRE5.0 distros. Yoav This e-mail, including any attachments, is a confidential business communication, and may contain information that is confidential, proprietary and/or privileged. This e-mail is intended only for the individual(s) to whom it is addressed, and may not be saved, copied, printed, disclosed or used by anyone else. If you are not the(an) intended recipient, please immediately delete this e-mail from your computer system and notify the sender. Thank you. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
