Shapira, Yoav wrote:
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?
No, you misunderstood.
- 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, everything
- jakarta-tomcat-5.5.0-compat.zip - for JRE 1.4 (a few additional JARs, not the whole
thing)
- jakarta-tomcat-5.5.0-compat.tar.gz - for JRE 1.4, no Admin
- jakarta-tomcat-5.5.0-admin.zip - admin WAR + the XML file
- jakarta-tomcat-5.5.0-admin.tar.gz - admin WAR + the XML file
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.
IMO, the admin webapp is better located in the special folder we're
using right now. It helps with catalina_base.
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.
This is a bad idea.
- Windaube XP only supports .zip
- tgz allows setting Unix execute flag
Rémy
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