+1 from me for full built downloads (as I write this from a transatlantic flight).
--Erik On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Les Hazlewood <lhazlew...@apache.org> wrote: > Sounds good to me. > > As a side note though, one of the things that is nice about a binary, > non-source package is that I can download everything local to disk > without needing to be connected to the internet to view documentation > and reference .jars as a I need them. > > I think it would be nice to create such a package for our next > release. This is the reason for example, why Spring has a > spring-3.0.2-with-dependencies.zip and a spring-3.0.2-with-docs.zip. > When I wasn't a Maven or Ant+Ivy user, I really liked being able to > have this 'one stop shop' download. > > How do other projects do this? I'm sure most of them don't have a > 'use Maven or you'll have to everything on the internet' approach, > right? > > Les > > > On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Alan D. Cabrera <l...@toolazydogs.com> > wrote: > > > > On Jun 3, 2010, at 2:24 PM, Kalle Korhonen wrote: > > > >> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Les Hazlewood <lhazlew...@apache.org> > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> My suggestion last night that I couldn't formulate very well was > >>> basically this: > >>> 1. Unzip the 'official' source release. > >>> 2. Build the project in its entirety from the .zip > >>> 3. tarball up the built project (with target directories, etc) and > >>> upload it to dist > >>> 4. Untar it on dist > >>> 5. Change the links on the dowload page to reference the dist target > >>> locations. > >>> Its not as clean as only uploading the raw .jars and .asc/.sha1/.md5 > >>> files, but it is easily automated. If there is another mechanism that > >>> easily allows us to automate upload of only what would be downloaded, > >>> that'd be better. I'm in favor of whatever is easiest. > >> > >> Lots of unzipping, tarring and untarring there. I was merely going to > >> put the zip and the keys and possibly the shiro-all there and be done > >> with it. > > > > I'm thinking that since this is what was voted on and checked, this is > what > > we should run with. > > > > > > Regards, > > Alan > > > > >
