did you mean Demo data.
with seed data alone you can not even login to ofbiz.
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Ruth Hoffman sent the following on 8/26/2010 9:04 AM:
Hi All:
I respectfully beg to differ here:
There is no reason for a small business to have to use SVN in order to
implement OFBiz. While it is nice to have that functionality, and I miss
the SVN version information that is no longer available in the recent
"releases" from the download site, I've successfully implement many an
OFBiz application without ever using the SVN functionality. Of course,
I'm just one developer - SVN really shines when you have multiple
developers working on the same code.
Secondly, why would the compiled binary always be updated? I thought
once a "Release" was released, the only updates are bug fixes. And from
past conversations on this list, those only happen - maybe once a quarter.
This is not rocket science. The proposal to re-instate the binary jar
files and install the seed-data for a fully functional version of OFBiz
- one that runs out-of-the-box, is what was available as an official
Apache OFBiz Release and download as recently as 4 months ago. Then,
someone decided (ok Adrian, say what you must) to change this.
Regards,
Ruth
Matt Warnock wrote:
I have to agree with Scott, there is no big effort required here. OFBiz
is a development platform, it is constantly being updated, and even the
branches are getting new fixes constantly. It is inefficient to
download a "compiled binary distribution" which is constantly being
updated, so learning to use SVN, even for branches, is really a must.
And that means recompiling the code.
As someone pointed out earlier, the instructions just need to be fixed
so that new user expectations are appropriately managed.
As to the effort of creating a binary distribution, I would much rather
see that same effort spent on solving the in-place database upgrade
issues that have been discussed here for some time, for example.
Those bit me on the butt this week. :-)
