[jsword-devel] Releases

[Joe Walker]

DM Smith wrote:
> JNLP delivers just binary. I think it is sufficient. (I'm a bit biased)
> CVS delivers source, but a whole lot more. I think if we were to create 
> src zips along with the jars and put them in the nightly jnlp directory 
> that would be good.
> 
> As a matter of delivery structure for the batch envrionment it is:
>     bin/
>     lib/
>     resource/
> 
> for jnlp it is
>     jnlp/
> 
> If we build:
>     bin/ with the shell scripts
>     lib/ with signed jars (including resource.jar) and jnlp file
> 
> this would merge the two into one directory structure in the build, on 
> the website and for those that want to download and run locally, from 
> local disk.

How about we merge bin/ and lib/ too, is there a good reason to keep 
them separate?

The reason resources is kept separate, and unpacked is so that advanced 
users can edit the properties files, which gives you a primitive plug-in 
architecture.

Maybe we could have the batch files use resource.jar or resource/ 
whichever is present.


> I think that the website should also be restructured wrt the download 
> and installation.

Added to bugs.txt

Joe.