On 3/28/02 10:09 AM, "Sam Ruby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I couldn't figure out a point by point response, so here it is all at once: > > Installed packages require a descriptor just like everything else. > IMHO, individual descriptors in my mind are better than "single > 'installed packages' descriptor" for pretty much the same reason that > you don't like them burried in cocoon or velocity. > > Having gump.covalent.net be the source for things we can legally > distribute (like jython) is fine by me. I would be opposed to > distributing things that have licenses that preclude our distribution. > > In the general case, we need to think about distributions not merely > jars. My preference would be to have distributions be zip files - which > are retrieved using wget (using the --timestamping option) and then > unzipped into the /workspace/@pkgdir directory. A thought on the last point (I have lurking on this thread, as much as I can this week) is that with naked jars, I can do cute things with classloaders w/o having to worry about a file system to work in.... -- Geir Magnusson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] System and Software Consulting Be a giant. Take giant steps. Do giant things... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
