[jira] Commented: (PLUTO-588) Getting Started website page for Pluto 2.x needs to be updated concerning available and provided distributions

["Robert Brown III (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Robert Brown III commented on PLUTO-588:
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Greetings:

Thanks for the response and direction.

I would like to gently suggest that providing only Maven dependency configurations as a means of accessing the Pluto container artifacts is not necessarily a good idea. For one thing: suppose someone is creating something new (like a new Portal system) that does not require the dependencies used by Apache software, of if someone is putting together a very small project that Maven would be "overkill" for? Or perhaps someone wanting to use Pluto is working at a shop that forbids the use of Maven (certain groups in the Department of Defense do this). Or maybe the downloader is one of those "mutants" who simply does not like Maven and refuses to use it. 

I do not believe it would be difficult to provide the necessary jars for the container as a separate distribution, just as you did with previous releases.

Alternatively, while updating the getting started page, you might want to give instructions for extracting the appropriate jars from the bundle. Probably the best approach to do this would be to point to which jars to extract for the container and the driver...

> Getting Started website page for Pluto 2.x needs to be updated concerning available and provided distributions
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>
>                 Key: PLUTO-588
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PLUTO-588
>             Project: Pluto
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: documentation, general, portlet container
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.0
>         Environment: Irrelevant, since this is filed against the Pluto Site, not Pluto itself
>            Reporter: Robert Brown III
>
> On the Getting Started page of the Pluto site (http://portals.apache.org/pluto/v20/getting-started.html) there are a number of distributions mentioned, including the pluto-current-bundle (Pluto bundled with Tomcat) , pluto-current-bin (the Pluto libraries and portal), pluto-current-container-bin (the Pluto Container libraries), and pluto-current-src (the source code). 
> Unfortunately, when attempting to download, it seems that only the bundle and the source are available. The pluto-current-bin and (most importantly for me)  pluto-current-container-bin are apparently not on any mirrors.
> It would be appreciated if someone would make these distributions available, or please correct/expand what is on the Getting Started page..
> Please note: this is put here as a bug because I could find nowhere else to report this problem. I am unaware of any other avenues of contact concerning matters other than this bug- reporting system. I am uncertain if this is the right place to report this problem, but I cannot find a more appropriate place. 
> If such a place exists, then please point me to it so that I can eliminate this bug report.

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