Is there a document that explains line by line what each of the entries in build.properties is? Some of them weren't clear to me, so I just guessed whether I needed them or not.
Not that I'm aware of and it's a good idea. Could you start a wiki page for it at wiki.cocoondev.org? That'd be the fasted way to get some useful information documented.
Geoff
Sam Chance wrote:
As a user...the binary is essential. I understand it makes it easier for
the developers, but I think the issue needs to be revisited with an intent
to distribute a binary.
Ok, first of all - I hear you and will raise this issue again on the dev list. (cc'd). Can I ask you to elaborate on why you think the one step build is just out of the question for you? Is it the ease of first use when evaluating? Is it the build time? Is there something not provided that is needed? Honestly, everyone has been very open minded about this but had a hard time coming up with a quantifiable reason.
But also,
- just to reiterate. This was not meant to make it easier on the developers, but the users. It was observed that Cocoon is not really a thing that you just "use" -- it's a framework that lets you develop something. And starting that process was very painful with a binary distribution and it is much better with the current one. There is just so much in the distribution that any one person doesn't need all of it.
- this was never intended as a permanent direction for Cocoon. The arrival of hot-pluggable "real" blocks in (probably) the next release will give the best of both worlds.
Geoff
-----Original Message----- From: Derek Hohls [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 12:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ANN] Apache Cocoon 2.1 Released - binary??
The explanation given here is *not* an explanation at all - not all of us are subscribers to the developers list and so are not party to the discussions that prompted this decision - perhaps one of the developers can summarise the issues and update the website - then the rest of us can have a chance to comment.
PS If you do decide to not release a binary verrsion, then you certainly should remove the link to the Binary distributions archive (link on this page)
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Frans Thamura wrote:
Where is the binary???
http://cocoon.apache.org/mirror.cgi Second paragraph.
Vadim
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