On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 8:07 AM, ant elder <antel...@apache.org> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Simon Laws <simonsl...@googlemail.com> > wrote: > >> >> I wonder whether we need the ability to run from maven at all. We need >> a way for people to compile samples of course. I've be happy with the >> following. >> >> 1 - use the shell as the primary out of the box mechanism for >> loading/running sample contributions where possible >> 2 - present all the other options for running/embedding Tuscany under >> "running tuscany" which is after all why we created that directory in >> the first place, i.e. to separate sample contributions from the large >> number of ways we have of running them >> 3 - make using the sample contributions in eclipse really easy >> (re-instate the eclipse plugin? provide instructions for generating >> projects files? Or even ship project files?) >> > > I can understand the motivation for doing that but we did try it a bit > before and I got the feeling people didn't really like it. Eg needing > to have a prebuilt binary distribution can be a bit painful. > > ...ant >
Are you suggesting that we don't ship a binary distribution now and go with just a source distribution? Simon -- Apache Tuscany committer: tuscany.apache.org Co-author of a book about Tuscany and SCA: tuscanyinaction.com
