Stefano Mazzocchi wrote, On 24/03/2003 15.23:
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Nicola, in a perfect world, we would have totally isolated dynamic blocks with a super block manager and totally run-time hot-deployable stuff.
In that case, we would *NOT* need a source distro at all because people would be able to tune their stuff without having to run a silly XConfTool all over the place to patch a massive amount of xml files.
Unfortunately, this is not the case.
ACK. But how much is needed to make this happen? I don't have energy and time to do it and follow it (ie debug, discuss, check), but the code changes don't seem that big, as prior assesment done on this list.
So, right now, if we ship a binary, we ship a monolithyc black box.
ACK.
on the other hand, if we release a *build-based* configurer/installer (I don't call it 'source distro' anymore because you people get blinded by that word and don't seem to really see about what I'm saying),>
those million xconftool patches are done for you and you can tune your cocoon for what you really need without futher hassle and no black-box-ish feeling.>
In the future, when we have a more modern run-time driven (instead of build-time driven) block model, we'll move to binary based distros (with the power of WORA which is always nice), but for 2.1 I don't see the benefit of shipping one huge binary blackbox and tell people to download the source distro if they really want to tune their stuff.
Ok, couldn't you say this before? ;-P
It seemed like "let's kill binary distros for Cocoon", but here I see a roadmap that seems more than sensible.
Because nobody will do it and our effort to build a tuneable build system will be totally wasted.
Ok then, what about this:
1 - make a single distro 2 - export also cocoon.jar 3 - we make Forrest also export a .war in the distros 4 - we link to Forrest for a Cocoon exmaple webapp 5 - we will switch to a built version for the distro in the future
SOC from a distro level ;-)
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