I realised that our current packaging is not very good - its just a collection of jar files. we need a runtime package that can be unzipped and have scripts to launch the various tools. To that end I've just added a new module to the build called kato.distro. It uses the maven assembly plugin to pull in the runtime jars and then creates a zip and a tar.gz. It also easy to add extra doc ,scripts etc so I've added some empty files accordingly.
Just need to fill in the blank scripts and figure out how to get the module to build as part of the main build ... Cheers Steve