WDYT?
But have in mind that the download computer is not always the install computer. Or the other way around: the install computer(s) has/have not necessarily access to the internet. I don't want to download all the dependent libraries one by one.
My idea about this wasn't deployment (although this could be useful with a repository on the local network) but svn and distros.
With dependencies fetched from a repository, we can provide 3 different distros:
- source, with no dependent libraries included. This is basically a snapshot of the svn tree
- small binary, with no dependent libraries included. It's up to the user to download the libraries that are needed for the blocks he chooses to use (can be automated with blocks.properties), if they aren't already present in his local cache.
- full binary, with all dependent libraries included.
There are a lot of projects that do this, e.g. Spring [1]. This reduces download size, especially when there is a local repository used by a number of different projects.
I think this is a great idea! big +1
We could also directly talk to the ibiblio folks if things really don't work out. I am sure we can work this out.
cheers -- Torsten
