On May 17, 2008, at 5:07 PM, David Jencks wrote:
On May 17, 2008, at 4:20 PM, Jacek Laskowski wrote:
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 10:36 AM, jontto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I could not find a Debian package of Geronimo, is there any
particular
reason for this or has it just not got done yet?
The latter is the answer I guess. Nobody took care of it yet. Would
you mind? Report a task in JIRA and work on it.
I'd like to know what this involves and why this is a good idea
before anyone spends much time on it. I don't think we want to
encourage anyone to adopt a non-standard server layout without a
good reason, and without this I'd expect any packaging to consist of
the tar.gz server distro. Now there's the question, which one.....
we have about 5 now.
I don't think this is so much looking for a non-standard server
layout, but a standard server layout in a Debian-specific package
format with additional Debian specific meta-data. If somebody wants to
spend time on this, they are welcome to (naturally)... However, it's
another matter if they want to start checking in code... ;-) I'm not
so sure that we want to become a source for linux distribution package
formats. Seems like we could spend a fair amount of time running down
Linux distribution specific package formats (e.g. SuSe, RedHat,
Debian, Ubuntu, etc).
I guess something that almost makes sense to be would be a "server
construction kit" consisting of a geronimo plugin repository
together with the framework server so that you could assemble
servers of your choice. I think this is pretty different in
philosophy from most debian packages however.
Well we already have that in a form... A full java ee server can
assemble servers of user's choosing. Would agree that we should
consider methods of building up servers (or more dynamically starting
server components). I view that as orthogonal to any linux
distribution packaging we might do...
--kevan
