Simon Nash wrote:
Simon L made the following comment on TUSCANY-3508 (see [1]):
Do we need the binary version of the travel sample distribution? It seems
> that people interested in the sample would want to look at the source
code.
> Just running it is not very interesting as, as is often the way with
samples,
> it doesn't really do anything useful in its own right.
I don't think we need the binary distribution as a separately released
artifact.
However I do think we need to retain the distribution directory within the
sample source tree so that people can build the binary distribution for
themselves and see what the executable binary artifacts look like.
This approach would suggest that using the name "distribution" for this
directory might not be ideal. Other possibilities for this directory name
are "binaries", "executables", "runtime", ???
Of the above options I would have a slight preference for "binaries".
Thoughts, other suggestions?
Simon
[1]
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TUSCANY-3508?focusedCommentId=12847769&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel#action_12847769
On reflection we can't rename the "distribution" directory because this
is also used to produce the source distribution. We could do the following:
1. Split the current "distribution" directory into two directories at
the same level, one called "distribution" which creates the source
distribution and one called "binaries" which creates what we are
currently calling the binary distribution.
2. Take "distribution" out of the top-level maven build, so that when
users build the travel sample they don't create an extra copy of
the source distribution.
3. Add "binaries" to the top-level maven build, so that when users build
the travel sample they get a complete set of the binary artifacts
needed to run it.
I can make these changes if we agree that this is the right approach.
Simon
