Hi Tony,

yes, I see, with my last change, I confused "level with metalevel". :-)
I'll fix this later today!

About the template projects in general:

Thank you for your explanation and your dedication to quality/usability
of the product we're writing. In Germany, we have a saying: "You pound
against my already open door". I agree 100% with what you said and would
like to have it exactly that way. I'll write a hibernate-template
project for AndroMDA 2.x. Who writes a struts-template?

About our packaging of ZIP files:

My original idea was that the user should only need to download what
(s)he wants to use. However, this decision has proven too difficult for
new users. And: users prefer to spend a little more download time when
they get ease of use.

So, I'd like to propose the following new packaging schema:

Let's do it like Apache or JBoss - let's ship one source code ZIP and
one binary ZIP - no more. The source code ZIP is trivial - it contains
exactly what you get with "cvs co andromda-all", no more, no less. The
binary ZIP should contain the sum of the current ZIPs (minus sources),
supported by a decent subdirectory structure in the ZIP.

I think, having only two ZIPs (andromda-binary.zip and
andromda-source.zip) would make it very easy for users to handle the
product.

Tony and the others, what do you think?

Cheers...
Matthias

P.S.: About template projects again: For 3.x, I dream about
"project-lets" in each cartridge that can be composed to a whole
"project" by a new sort of "project wizard" that lets the user choose
which cartridges (s)he wants to use.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anthony Mowers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2003 9:05 PM
> To: Matthias Bohlen; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [Andromda-devel] Finalizing the new build system
> 
> 
> 
> Matthias,
> 
> I think the latest change you made to the build.xml for 
> samples/ejb-template might be an error.  At least it breaks 
> the wizard and project templates as I had imagined them to work.
> 
> ...
> 
> I want to say how important I think these template projects 
> are.
> ...
> 
> Regarding the packaging of ZIP files: I got feed back from a 
> few users about our collection of downloadable 'zip' files.  
> They found it very confusing that there were so many zip 
> files to choose from and they were uncertain
> about where to unzip them.   

> ...
> 
> What do you guys think?





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