On Sun, 14 Apr 2002 22:11, Jeff Turner wrote: > On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 09:11:48PM +1000, Peter Donald wrote: > > About this. What does everyone think of not having both a binary and > > source distribution for all the excalibur packages. They are the type of > > things where you want both source and binaries for when integrating into > > your own apps. I would prefer one combined distribution that had both > > source and binaries. > > How about we just bundle the jar in the source distribution? That's what > this src-dist prototype does. > > The jar is typically much smaller than the source, so including the jar > has relatively little impact. Eg, io has a 20k jar (compressed), and > 332k of source code. This ratio also makes the binary-only distribution > significantly smaller than the source distribution. For io, the source > distro is 155k (with jar), binary is 89k. For this reason, I wouldn't > like to give up the binary distribution.
Thats definetly possible. Personally I am not sure I see a use for it. These libraries are small enough that it wouldn't really matter either way IMHO. 56K is not something that is significant nowadays. But if you want to keep it then I guess we can. However how about we name the combined dist "foo.zip" and the binary dist "foo-bin.zip" (ie drop the "-src" specifier). -- Cheers, Peter Donald -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
