On Feb 14, 2008, at 12:03 PM, David Jencks wrote:
On Feb 14, 2008, at 8:30 AM, Joe Bohn wrote:
With our 2.1 distribution (as with earlier distributions) we are
only providing the javaee5 & minimal assemblies. Are we ever
planning to make the geronimo-framework assembly available in a
distribution so that a user could start from scratch (not even a
web container) and build up a server by installing plugins?
That was the original intent when we created this assembly. I know
that the originally framework included enough deployment capability
to deploy plugins. However, I'm not certain that is still the case
(I haven't tried in a long time). Assuming you can still install
plugins (or we add that back in), I think it makes sense to
distribute this assembly. BTW, I'm not proposing this for 2.1 given
that it is nearly completely baked.
All the framework assembly can do is install plugins. I think we
should definitely distribute it in the future and I am proposing we
distribute it for 2.1 as well. IIUC in any case it will get into
the maven repos, so adding it to the official download page
shouldn't be too hard.
Agreed. We are releasing the framework assembly. It's part of the
binary artifacts in our maven repo -- http://people.apache.org/~kevan/release-votes/G-2.1/geronimo-2.1/org/apache/geronimo/assemblies/geronimo-framework/2.1/
Simple matter, IMO, to also include in the distribution page. IMO, a
vote isn't necessary (as it's already covered by the existing 2.1
vote). I'll give this a bit of time, to see if there are contrary
opinions. Assuming, the 2.1 vote passes and there aren't any
objections, I'll set up framework in the distribution directory, also.
--kevan
