[jira] [Commented] (EDGENT-413) Simplify download experience

["Christofer Dutz (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Christofer Dutz commented on EDGENT-413:
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Well I guess the Maven migration I just sent via pull request https://github.com/apache/incubator-edgent/pull/309 would handle the distribution of Release and SNAPSHOT artifacts via Maven repository managers nicely.

In addition to simplifying things, I would suggest to create some simple Maven archetypes to help people setup their own Edgent applications. For those of you which don't quite know archetypes: It's a mechanism built into the default Maven system that allows you to provide project template which users can simply execute and automate the setup of maven projects.

We did have quite good success with this in the Flex project.

> Simplify download experience
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>
>                 Key: EDGENT-413
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/EDGENT-413
>             Project: Edgent
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: John D. Ament
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> Edgent binaries are not distributed via maven.  To simplify consumer use cases, it would be better to see these binaries in a java based repository manager.
> When doing this, it would also be good to remove the heavy binary distribution in favor of a simpler maven staging repository with the binaries in it, but it may make sense to split out that work after this is in.



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