[GitHub] brooklyn-server issue #485: `BundleMaker` utility routines making it easy to...

[ahgittin <gi...@git.apache.org>]

Github user ahgittin commented on the issue:

    https://github.com/apache/brooklyn-server/pull/485
  
    After refactoring in #576 (thanks @aledsage) this PR contains _only_ the REST call.  As for the principal suggestions on the REST API, responding both to @geomacy and @neykov :
    
    Requiring a `MANIFEST.MF` makes the input strongly java-centric; I'd like to appeal to people who write YAML blueprints with co-bundled scripts and images.  They'd wonder why they can't simply make and upload a ZIP.  They could probably be persuaded to supply a name and optional version on a CLI or UI, and understand why it is needed (hence supporting those args) but it would not be idiomatic to anyone but a java programmer to create a `META-INF/` dir with a `MANIFEST.MF` and its syntax.  Meanwhile it is very easy for us to convert the ZIP to a JAR on the server.  Feels like uncontroversial good UX.
    
    OTOH for a java programmer a `MANIFEST.MF` is natural, and they'd want to drop the name/version args if they are in that file, and I see no reason to forbid that pattern.
    
    Can this merge once above agreed?



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