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?
Why ? We can distribute admin.war as a separate binary, who needs it can install it separately.
What is the difference between JRE1.4 and JRE5.0 distribution ? I'm building with 1.4 and 1.5 and it works fine with 1.5, 1.5 and 1.3, do we need separate builds ?
BTW - I don't know how hard it would be to have admin.war also distributed as a .exe with installer ( just need to extract the war
in the tomcat dir ).
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.
+1
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.
Do we do any line ending processing for tgz and zip ? The expectation is that .tgz distributions use unix LF, and zip files use CRFL.
If tgz and zip are identical ( and I assume it's CRLF since the build is on windows ) - then it's a good idea to have only zip ( tgz with CRLF is confusing )
Costin
Yoav
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