Yes, getting the installer working would be great! regards,
Karl On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Alex Karasulu <[email protected]> wrote: > Over at Directory we have made significant strides in a Maven plugin that > generates installers for almost all commonly used platformed (minus AIX > perhaps). Early in Felix' inception we introduced this plugin so it could > be used to make installers for daemons/services. These installers are quite > generalized and can be used to help make installers and packages for > applications based on the SM Kernel. This might be the time now to > contribute them to the SM Kernel effort. The installers generated are > debian packages, rpm packages, solaris packages, mac osx installers, windows > installers, and os independent tar/zip balls. > > Chris and I discussed this last night on IRC. Don't know if this will add > value but we're more than willing to facilitate if this is something others > would be interested in. > > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Chris Custine <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I think this would be a great move, and like Guillaume said, would increase >> the visibility substantially. I think a few Apache projects have started >> tracking ServiceMix Kernel and might be using it as the basis for their >> OSGi >> based projects. However, when most people see the ServiceMix moniker, they >> don't realize that it is really a generic OSGi base application. >> >> So I am +1 on this idea. >> >> Chris >> >> -- >> Chris Custine >> FUSESource :: http://fusesource.com >> My Blog :: http://blog.organicelement.com >> Apache ServiceMix :: http://servicemix.apache.org >> Apache Directory Server :: http://directory.apache.org >> >> >> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Guillaume Nodet <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > During ApacheCon last week, there has been some discussions around >> > moving ServiceMix Kernel as a subproject of Felix. >> > ServiceMix Kernel is a packaged distribution of Felix designed for >> > server side applications (see http://servicemix.apache.org/kernel/ for >> > more informations). >> > >> > I think this would be beneficial for this project as it would enable >> > to build a much bigger community around it, increase the visibility >> > and the awareness around it. Of course, it would need a new name, but >> > that's another problem. >> > Another area that could be included in this move is the ServiceMix >> > specs (OSGi enhanced versions of Java EE specifications from Geronimo) >> > and ServiceMix bundles (we've released a bunch of bundles already, see >> > http://servicemix.apache.org/smx4/bundles-repository.html). >> > >> > I'd like to have feedback from both communities (and any other >> > interested parties) to gauge the interest in such a move. >> > >> > -- >> > Cheers, >> > Guillaume Nodet >> > ------------------------ >> > Blog: http://gnodet.blogspot.com/ >> > ------------------------ >> > Open Source SOA >> > http://fusesource.com >> > >> > -- Karl Pauls [email protected]
