On Oct 2, 2005, at 9:11 PM, Aaron Mulder wrote:
On 10/2/05, Geir Magnusson Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Aaron - how do you feel about actually releasing this... care to vote?
I would like to vote -1 until there's an installer package available,
but it seemed like it would be rude. So now I'm hoping that the vote
drags on long enough for David and I to work out the path to the
installer. :)
I've managed to convince myself that we can claim the tests we have
already run cover the installer version as well as the zip version
since they include exactly the same jar files, directory structure, and
configurations. The only difference is in the config.xml and
config.list files, which are changed to run the tck anyway. I would
prefer in the future that the Izpack stuff be run from a maven plugin
and integrated in the build and work by unpacking or including the zip
distribution, but am willing to use what we have for M5. David Blevins
is working on building an installer. With luck it will be available
shortly.
thanks
david jencks
Aaron
On Oct 2, 2005, at 9:05 PM, Aaron Mulder wrote:
Well, as soon as IzPack 3.8 goes final, it should be in Maven -- the
previous release is. I would be happy to make that a condition of
Geronimo 1.0, but I don't think it's necessary for M5.
It's fine with me if the installer is build by unpacking the
assembly zip.
Aaron
On 10/2/05, David Jencks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I think there are a couple of issues:
1. It is a really lot of work to run the tck, and I'm not up for
doing
it again for a while. I would prefer to find a way to claim that
the
geronimo installer is covered by the tests run on the zip distro. I
would be quite happy claiming this if the installer was built by
unpacking the zip into the installer directory rather than copying
all/most of the files. It's probably fine if we build the installer
using the same assembly directory, but I'd like some other
opinions on
this.
2. Related to the above, we should build the installer on the same
assembly module copy as the zip. That's one of David Blevin's
machines, so he should do it.
Also, if we can distribute our own Axis, I'm sure we can distribute
our own IzPack. But really, I don't think there's a compelling
need
to, since no one needs IzPack to install or run the product.
(Also,
you say you couldn't get a copy for yourself, but that's only
because
the download was troublesome for you, right? If I had a nickel for
every time ibiblio crapped out... :)
Ibiblio sometimes has problems, but it is a well known well
advertised
site with automated downloads and usually works fine. Stuff
available
from it has at least theoretically been officially released by its
authors. The current version of izpack is on a secret site that you
need a password for and that in my experience has not yet worked.
It
has not been officially released and I have no idea how it was
built.
I'm not sure how much of an issue I have with this for M5 but I
really
don't want to continue this state of affairs through the next
release.
I think izpack has to be run from maven.
Anyone else have an opinion?
thanks
david jencks
Aaron
On 10/2/05, David Jencks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Oct 2, 2005, at 8:00 AM, Aaron Mulder wrote:
Cool. Can you publish a candidate installer, too?
well, I'm not sure. I see two potential problems, aside from
being
too
tired right now to put it together :-)
1. We aren't set up to certify it, how would we make it clear
that the
installer version wasn't certified? Or is it certified??? I'd
prefer
to find a way to certify the installer based version. I think it
would
be easy to build the installer using maven, but I'm not sure about
unpacking/running it to get something to test. If we found a
way to
make the installer include the certified zip distribution and just
unpack it and change the config.* files I don't think this would
be an
issue. Maybe it's ok to claim the installer is certified if it is
built from the same assembly as the zip. I'm just not sure.
2. It's built with unreleased software that I at least couldn't
get
for
myself. I suppose that we could include a copy of the installer
kit
version we use, as we have included a copy of axis.
Anyway I hope we can figure out a way to answer these questions
so we
can put out a installer version.
thanks
david jencks
Thanks,
Aaron
On 10/2/05, Geir Magnusson Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
(just making it clear for others)
+1 from me
Thanks everyone for the incredible work to make this happen.
geir
On Oct 2, 2005, at 8:15 AM, David Jencks wrote:
The 1.0-M5 branch passed all the tck tests, so David Blevins
and I
have tagged geronimo and openejb and built a candidate 1.0-M5
zip.
We are running the tck on this.
The zip is available for testing at
http://people.apache.org/~dblevins/geronimo-1.0-M5.zip
We'd like to call for a vote on a release based on this tag
conditional on the tck passing (again). I think the process
would
be that after the vote we would work on publishing the jars,
this
zip distribution, and a source distribution.
Many thanks,
david jencks
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