> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Strachan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 10 July 2002 15:14
> To: Turbine Maven Developers List
> Subject: Re: binary distros - should we include the jars?
>
>
>
>
> > On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 09:50, James Strachan wrote:
> > > Just a thought; I'm just about to hack the jelly build so that the
> binary
> > > distro comes with a lib directory containing all the jars
> it depends on.
> >
> > How about a target that brings them down if the user wishes? Somehow
> > utilize the local repository to promote reuse. I suppose
> some might want
> > full containment for the distros, but if we could manage to somehow
> > provide instructions in the dist that could pull down the resources
> > without having maven installed than I would prefer that.
> Maybe something
> > like the generated Ant build.
>
> I guess we've already got that with the generated Ant build.
>
>
> > > I just wondered; should the binary distro of maven
> projects come with a
> lib
> > > directory and all the jars they depend on? The source
> distro obviously
> > > wouldn't need this - but non Maven or Ant users might
> like all the jars
> > > inside an (admittedly large) binary distro?
> > >
> > > Right now the binary and source distros are pretty
> similar - maybe this
> > > could be the main difference, the inclusion of dependent
> jars? Thoughts?
> >
> > I would like a target to get the JARs. Not sure how usable
> this would
> > be. I just don't want to produce 100 distros nightly with
> tons of JARs.
> > I would like to force the issue of reuse.
>
> I understand and think you're right. Making this a default is
> probably a bad
> thing (at least for Apache and their disk space ;-). So I'll
> keep this thing
> local to Jelly's binary distro for now.
>
> I guess I could refactor it into an optional goal that folks
> could attain if
> they want to do that? e.g. if they are working on an internal
> project and
> want to keep all the jars with the distro?
>
Surely nightly build would only be source - ie no jars. But for releases
include jars.
Jon
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