Jeremias Maerki wrote:
Remember the discussions about ASF repository reorganisation on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Faded off inconclusivly, except for mirroring...
Maybe the Gump, Maven and Krysalis Centipede guys have ideas related to this.
Ideas: yes. Solutions: mmmmm.
Also keep an eye on Krysalis Version (http://www.krysalis.org/version) that's providing a little bit of base functionality in this region. Just my 0.02 CHF.
I can't see from the overview page how this helps here any more than Maven does.
Gump and Maved have dependency information, this is a good start. What is needed is a small GUI installer similar to Cygwin setup, only slightly better: - Present a nice form for entering connection data by the user (especially proxy setup) and perhaps for other preferences - Manage persistent connection data and preferences - Manage the mirror list - Present a nice wizard to choose packages to download, keep an eye on dependencies - Tell the user about the download size - Let the user choose downloading optional non-apache packages - Present licenses for non-apache packages - Perhaps manage which licenses the user already has agreed (does somebody know of a case where a user did *not* agree to a license?) - Provide for canceling and temporary suspending a download - Manage partial downloads - Manage downloaded packages in order to avoid downloading the same or a compatible package twice - Update classpath settings, config files, build properties and whatnot, as necessary The core part is the package picking wizard, most of the rest is fancy bywork which could be deferred.
Well, there's jpackage.org.
FWIW, I think this and your earlier suggestion along these lines are excellent ideas. Ease of installation and configuration need to be given a high profile in Apache projects. As always, resourcing is the problem.
Peter -- Peter B. West http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/resume.html
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