On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 2:22 PM, ant elder <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Simon Laws <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Doesn't that just mean that we need to separate the binary samples >>>> distribution from the binary runtime distribution that users use to >>>> run them. >>>> >>> >>> We did talk about having a sample distribution earlier in the thread. >>> I guess whether or not we do ever release a separate sample >>> distribution for now we can keep and develop all the samples in a >>> sample folder in trunk and perhaps add a build to create a sample >>> distribution under the trunk distribution folder to see what it might >>> look like. >>> >>> ...ant >>> >> >> Sounds OK to me. Where are we with samples? I've lost track and >> reading back through this long thread it's difficult to tell if we >> concluded anything. Are the jars in the binary distro required for >> running samples for example. >> > > I don't think we've had many clear conclusions yet. > > I'm happy with the current helloworld-contribution sample [1], and i > quite like the possibilities of samples distribution, there's a built > distribution showing the type of thing that could look like at [2]. > > Both of those currently only have Maven builds. If Ant builds are > really needed they could be generated with "mvn ant:ant" which creates > builds that download dependencies from the maven repo, or they could > be done some other way, perhaps a separate Ant distribution. > > The more we talk about this the less i like the one big all > distribution that tries to work for everything. It seems to make > everything really complicated and odd so i'm starting to think its > better to seperate things out so they can be done in the most > appropriate way. > > ...ant > > [1] > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tuscany/sca-java-2.x/trunk/unreleased/samples/helloworld-contribution/ > [2] > https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/snapshots/org/apache/tuscany/sca/distributions/tuscany-samples/2.0-SNAPSHOT/ >
Any comments? Its been over a month since we tried this experiment of moving all the samples out of trunk to be fixed up, is this approach working? Would it help if we set a deadline of say one more week to come up with some conclusions? ...ant
