On Thu, 2020-03-26 at 13:02 +0100, Carsten Ziegeler wrote: > Hi Robert, > > On 26.03.2020 12:38, Robert Munteanu wrote: > > Hi Carsten, > > > > On Wed, 2020-03-25 at 10:21 +0100, Carsten Ziegeler wrote: > > > Add this point I'm a little bit unsure which way to go with the > > > starter, > > > therefore asking for feedback. I'm currently leaning towards the > > > second > > > option: just creating a feature archive for the starter (which we > > > can > > > already do today) > > > > I am not 100% sure I get the difference. With the 'classic' > > starter, we > > would produce a single, fat, jar that contains everything. > > > > What would be the proposal for the feature archive based jar? Do we > > ask > > the users to download a launcher jar and then run a command similar > > to > > > > $ java -jar launcher.jar --feature-archive= > > https://maven/repo/archive.zip? > > > > Right that is the difference - you basically need two artifacts, the > launcher and the feature archive - whereas today both are combined > into > a single archive.
Well, if we ask users to download only one artifact and the other is downloaded on-demand, then the situation is mostly the same IMO. Thanks, Robert
