+1 Having one distro is going to make polishing/testing a lot easier too. I also like Raul's idea of having a command to fully populate the system dir (or other dir) at a user's discretion.
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi guys, > > I don't see a lot of value to full assembly and minimal: > > - if an user wants minimal, just use Karaf ;) > - if an user really want full, just install NMR/JBI, etc in your SMX. > > I would keep only default assembly which is ready to use and extensible. > > Regards > JB > > > On 02/19/2014 11:46 AM, Gert Vanthienen wrote: > >> L.S., >> >> >> Just noticed Krzysztof's comment about the how and why of the >> apache-servicemix-full assembly in JIRA and think it's worth having a >> quick discussion about which of these assemblies we want to keep >> around going forward. >> >> Right now, we have 3 variations of our assembly in ServiceMix 5: >> - The default assembly has a setup that includes the base CXF, Camel >> and ActiveMQ bits and preinstalls those as boot features >> - The minimal assembly actually has none of these things preinstalled, >> it's just a plain Karaf with the feature URLs (among a few other >> things) preconfigured - not sure how much this one is used though >> - The full assembly is identical to default assembly, but the /system >> folder contains all bundles for all optional features. This makes it >> easy for people to use ServiceMix on servers that have no direct >> connection to the internet. This one is probably used a bit more (I >> usually install this one myself), but we are struggling to keep it >> below the maximum 350000000 bytes distribution size (which is already >> an exception to the rule at the ASF) and as issue >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SM-2241 is showing, it is prone >> to be impacted by any kind of error in any of our dependencies' >> features files. >> >> For ServiceMix 5 and other upcoming versions, which of these >> assemblies do we want to keep around? >> >> >> Regards, >> >> Gert Vanthienen >> >> > -- > Jean-Baptiste Onofré > [email protected] > http://blog.nanthrax.net > Talend - http://www.talend.com > -- Cheers, Jon --------------- Red Hat, Inc. Email: [email protected] Web: http://redhat.com Twitter: jon_anstey Blog: http://janstey.blogspot.com Author of Camel in Action: http://manning.com/ibsen
