The binaries are in our main maven repo of course on scala-tools... If we put them in the installer, this does 2 things:
1. makes more work for us to regularly update the installers with the latest JAR's and deploy to liftweb.net 2. Only saves the user about 1 min of download time during their first run. The point of the installer is to get a users environment setup - from there its just a simple case of running: mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeCatalog=http://scala-tools.org/ Job Done. Also, remember that we actually cannot distribute all the required dependencies to make lift work because of licensing restrictions... So what will it do when it needs those dependencies? Its going to fetch them from the web. So, back to where we started... It might as well just download lift too and get the latest version. Thoughts? Cheers, Tim On 13/05/2009 09:23, "marius d." <marius.dan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > So ... I'm lost :) ... Where are the lift's binaries? > > What I expected is this: > > 1. Install Lift via installer. > 2. Create a lift project with Lift's archetypes > 3. Build the project and run it > > So the only thing that differs from what I normally do is step #1 > where I'm not getting Lift's sources from GIT and I'm not building > Lift. I just wanted Lift's binaries and dependencies to be in my maven > repository. > > I guess my expectation is wrong :( ... so how does the Lift installer > help someone that is new to Lift and just wants to try it out? > > Please forgive me if I may seam blunt, it is not my intention, just > want to understand it ... > > Br's, > Marius > > On May 13, 11:09 am, Timothy Perrett <timo...@getintheloop.eu> wrote: >> Ah right yes - it just does not do that :-) >> >> The installer configures the environent ready for dev. We took the >> descion some time ago to not try and replicate the maven functionality >> as it will download all the release or snapshot jars for you. >> >> Can we add some text that makes this clear? >> >> Cheers, Tim >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On 13 May 2009, at 09:02, "marius d." <marius.dan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >>> One other thing ... I just installed on Windows using the installer >>> and I did not want it's maven and Java rebel. >> >>> After installation I noticed that in my M2_REPO the lift's artifacts >>> are not in my repository. Maybe I just don't understand how the >>> installer works. >> >>> Br's, >>> Marius >> >>> On May 13, 10:49 am, "marius d." <marius.dan...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Windows... >> >>>> On May 13, 10:34 am, Timothy Perrett <timo...@getintheloop.eu> wrote: >> >>>>> Which platform? windows? mac? >> >>>>> Sent from my iPhone >> >>>>> On 13 May 2009, at 07:41, Marius <marius.dan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>>>>> Hi, >> >>>>>> I had it everything working having the git sources and built lift >>>>>> from >>>>>> there. But then I tried the lift-installer. After I un-installed it >>>>>> the M2_HOME env variable was not set back to the previous value. >> >>>>>> Br's, >>>>>> Marius > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
