On 8/2/11 11:09 PM, Jochen Wiedmann wrote: > On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Phil Steitz <phil.ste...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I am not so sure about that. I guess it depends on what kind of >> simple scripts you are willing to use to automate things and how >> much you care about being certain that that things are working and >> you know exactly what is going on. Personally, I would prefer that >> this machinery be visible and not require web gui games or plaintext >> passwords to work. I like the way tomcat does this and I will >> volunteer to develop and document a similar set of Ant tasks for >> Commons if others are willing to move back to replicating o.a.c >> groupIds from p.a.o. > Phil, my "simple script" is the POM. With Nexus, my manual steps are > typically reduced to copying the -src and -bin files out of the > repository (wget's good for that and it copies the whole directory at > one go) and copying these to the dist directory. Honestly, there are > some things remaining like setting the -current links, updating the > README and perhaps the KEYS file and fixing the permissions. But these > are left to do anyways. > > What's wrong with that procedure?
Nothing, other than that is exactly what I do and I know exactly what is going on. I don't see any real saving, that's all and I see no need to bring in proprietary gui-based software into the mix or to wget stuff from remote hosts. Nobody else seems to care about this, but you actually should perform a step that I don't - which is to verify the hashes after you move the stuff to dist/ Phil > > Jochen > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
