> As it seems to be clear by now there will be a 2.0 release. This 
> includes there will be milestone releases before the final one which 
> will be available as binaries *in pricipal*.
> 

Shall we set a date? Mid January -> Release Candidate 1?

> The problem for me is what a Slide binary release may look like...  I 
> have seen the 1.0.x binary comes as a Tomcat release modified to include 
> Slide. As Stefano pointed out, this hardly is the way to go for the 
> 2.x., is it? I have also seen this 1.0.x release contains jars that 
> might lead to license problems...
> 

A tomcat-wrapped binary release is nice (esp preconfigured with FileStores or 
hsqldb) because it provides users with a download and run WEBDAV server, they 
don't need to get and configure the servlet container seperately. I think this 
is attractive to many users.
If no one else is interested, I would be happy to work on this.

> Would a war (web archive) be enough for a binary release? Hardly...
> 

I would propose generating multiple binary release packages from the slide 
codebase:

1) Slide/Tomcat Integrated release, preconfigured to be 'out of the box 
runnable'
2) Slide WEBDAV Server WAR file for Servlet Containers supporting WAR 
deployment, still requireing store and users configuration.
3) Slide WEBDAV Server Admin WAR file. (aside: what is the state of the admin 
stuff? is it worth taking into the release?)

Additionally, I would remove the client into a seperate jakarta project 
(jakarta-slide-client). It has little to do with the server code (although I 
imagine the tests use it?), and might experience more development if it had its 
own project.

Richie


> Discussion is needed!
> 
> Oliver
> 
> Michael Smith wrote:
> 
>  > davout wrote:
>  >
>  >> Can somebody from the SLIDE development team please confirm that they
>  >> will
>  >> or will not be pushing out a binary distribution?
>  >
>  >
>  > In its current state, slide is not appropriate for use by people
>  > unwilling to work with the source. Providing binaries would, right now,
>  > be a disservice.
>  >
>  > The hope is that slide 2.0 (and presumably beta versions before that)
>  > will be provided as binaries within a relatively short period of time -
>  > looking at the current progress, I'd guess around 1-2 months would be a
>  > reasonable time to start producing betas.
>  >
>  > Mike
>  >
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