Re: 0.9.7: build changes

[Craig L Russell]

On Mar 29, 2007, at 5:00 PM, Patrick Linskey wrote:

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.

one is necessarily more right than another. The cost to us of having a

see a downside.

I agree, but I know that others disagree, and I don't see any reason why separate jar / distro seems low, and if it helps with adoption, I don't

I think that it does help adoption, and I don't see a downside either.

Craig

-Patrick

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From: Marc Prud'hommeaux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
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Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 11:15 AM
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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

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