The only drawback is that a lot of the time you can't put your favorite dev tools on a production machine, and you are stuck with using Notepad to edit config files.
-1 On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 6:06 AM, Christian Posta <[email protected]>wrote: > +1 > > > On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Timothy Bish <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > +1 > > > > Just use nix line endings and those masochists using notepad will likely > > enjoy the added pain. > > > > > > On 03/28/2013 11:56 AM, Jon Anstey wrote: > > > >> Right now, the zip and tar.gz distros contain different scripts and libs > >> depending on the platform: > >> > >> [janstey@bender tmp]$ diff -w -r apache-activemq-5.8.0_zip > >> apache-activemq-5.8.0_tar > >> Only in apache-activemq-5.8.0_zip/bin: activemq-admin.bat > >> Only in apache-activemq-5.8.0_zip/bin: activemq.bat > >> Only in apache-activemq-5.8.0_tar/bin: diag > >> Only in apache-activemq-5.8.0_tar/bin: linux-x86-32 > >> Only in apache-activemq-5.8.0_tar/bin: linux-x86-64 > >> Only in apache-activemq-5.8.0_tar/bin: macosx > >> Only in apache-activemq-5.8.0_zip/bin: win32 > >> Only in apache-activemq-5.8.0_zip/bin: win64 > >> > >> I'm proposing having a single ActiveMQ packaging script that produces a > >> zip > >> and tar.gz with the same contents. Other Apache projects do this > already: > >> CXF, Maven, ... So, we'd essentially be testing the same kit on all > >> platforms, which makes things simpler I think. > >> > >> Opened a ticket here https://issues.apache.org/**jira/browse/AMQ-4414< > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMQ-4414>and > >> also a pull request so folks could try it out if they want. > >> > >> https://github.com/apache/**activemq/pull/2< > https://github.com/apache/activemq/pull/2> > >> > >> One noticeable thing missing in this scheme are Windows line endings on > >> shared things like properties files and config, but I think we can live > >> with that. Hopefully most Windows devs have better text editors than > >> notepad :-) > >> > >> > > > > -- > > Tim Bish > > Sr Software Engineer | RedHat Inc. > > [email protected] | www.fusesource.com | www.redhat.com > > skype: tabish121 | twitter: @tabish121 > > blog: http://timbish.blogspot.com/ > > > > > > > -- > *Christian Posta* > http://www.christianposta.com/blog > twitter: @christianposta >
