On 2/22/06, Daniel John Debrunner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Do we need to leave the scripts in the frameworks directory as well? > If we care about backwards compatibility for these then they should > remain where they are. > > We may want to look at what useful scripts should be provided in a new > bin directory. Ones that work without the user having to modify them or > run separate setup scripts.
This sounds reasonable to me. I was a little hasty in wanting to just get rid of the scripts. Experience has shown that having an example of how to set the classpath has always been useful, especially for people who might be new to Java, and it is pretty common to have server start and stop scripts. Perhaps we should advertise that the frameworks scripts are deprecated as of 10.2 and will be removed in 10.3, and provide new scripts in a bin directory that rely on DERBY_HOME and JAVA_HOME and self-configure from there, like practically every other Java project at Apache (think Ant). Should I formalize that with a vote? Or perhaps the vote to deprecate the scripts can happen once we have new, better ones. Now, off to file a JIRA for myself to write some better scripts... andrew
