> > Also, we might want to think about other bundlings, such as > creating a > > single jar with all dependencies, > > I'm not all that keen on merging other project's jars into a single > monolithic jar. I think people expect that component-oriented > software is going to have various required and optional dependencies. > > I feel that monolithic jar bundling is more appropriate for an > application, rather than for a component.
I agree, but I know that others disagree, and I don't see any reason why one is necessarily more right than another. The cost to us of having a separate jar / distro seems low, and if it helps with adoption, I don't see a downside. -Patrick -- Patrick Linskey BEA Systems, Inc. _______________________________________________________________________ Notice: This email message, together with any attachments, may contain information of BEA Systems, Inc., its subsidiaries and affiliated entities, that may be confidential, proprietary, copyrighted and/or legally privileged, and is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity named in this message. If you are not the intended recipient, and have received this message in error, please immediately return this by email and then delete it. > -----Original Message----- > From: Marc Prud'hommeaux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Marc Prud'hommeaux > Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 11:15 AM > To: open-jpa-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: 0.9.7: build changes > > > On Mar 28, 2007, at 7:54 PM, Patrick Linskey wrote: > > > One thing that I would like to see happen prior to 0.9.7 is a > > change to > > the build artifacts so that we don't have '-project' or > '-all' tacked > > onto the releases everywhere. > > I've opened https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OPENJPA-194 for > this and assigned it to myself. > > > Also, we might want to think about other bundlings, such as > creating a > > single jar with all dependencies, > > I'm not all that keen on merging other project's jars into a single > monolithic jar. I think people expect that component-oriented > software is going to have various required and optional dependencies. > > I feel that monolithic jar bundling is more appropriate for an > application, rather than for a component. > > > > or a download that includes docs. What do you guys think? > > The binary assembly is meant to include the docs (and did on past > releases). I notice that they are absent from recent snapshots, > though. I'll try to figure out why that is. > > > > -Patrick > > > > > Notice: This email message, together with any attachments, may contain information of BEA Systems, Inc., its subsidiaries and affiliated entities, that may be confidential, proprietary, copyrighted and/or legally privileged, and is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity named in this message. If you are not the intended recipient, and have received this message in error, please immediately return this by email and then delete it.
