On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: > In the beginning, there was only one cocoon distribution, packaged with > two different packagers (zip for windows and tar.gz for unix and friends). > > Then cocoon became very complex and we decided to create a binary > distribution to make things easier. Things were indeed easier for new > users to install and try out, but it was harder for them to actually > *do* something with cocoon and tune it for their needs. > > The fact that there is even a sourceforge project about a 'clean' > version of our shipped cocoon WAR feels a little like a slap in our face. > > Now, in the light of a cleaned-up build system and a > very-well-factored-out static block architecture and the inclusion of a > super light-weight servlet container, I think we are ready to finally go > back to where we started and stop releasing binaries. > > Before you jump up and down and scream "no, no, binaries are easier for > our users", get off your > life-without-a-compiler-windows-inflicted-mindset and think that every > JDK comes with a compiler.
I can remind me that many users ask for a clean webapp. > To be really honest, Cocoon already includes not one but *TWO* java > compilers!!! we could build from javawebstart if we really wanted to! > (we should also decide if we want to remove pizza from the distribution!) > > So, in light of the good old triad > > ./configure; make; make install Only because of the fact that Cocoon have included two compilers, I do not want to used them. > I propose to ship Cocoon 2.1 *AS IS*, sort of a cleaned-up version of > our current CVS and improve a little the 'INSTALL.txt' doc that will > suggest you to do There are many things, which don't belong to a release like unfinished blocks, scratchpad, and perhaps deprecated stuff... So I whould like a solution there we offer a source distribution, and binary distribution with a war, which includes all samples, and one clean war. So the user can first download the bin-dist, test all samples, and experimentalize with the clean webapp. And then he is glad and want more, he can download the source-dist. My two cents, Stephan.
