Changes to distribution archive file contents

[sebb <se...@gmail.com>]

I've made some changes to build.xml (e.g. it now generates MD5
checksums), and the release distributions now have the following
content:

jakarta-jmeter-version.* (binary)
- Jmeter jars
- 3rd party jars
- printable docs (used by Help)
- "site" docs (i.e. with left hand menu)

jakarta-jmeter-version_src.* (source)
- all source
- javadocs

This is a slight change from the previous 2.0 releases, which did not
include the javadocs at all, and  included the 3rd party jars in the
source archive as well as in the binary archive.

It seems to me that the javadocs are mostly of interest to those who
want the source, so it seems unnecessary to add to the size of the
binary download by including them in it - after all, they total some
24MB!

Likewise, it seems unnecessary to add the 3rd party libraries to the
source distribution; anyone wanting to build the source can get them
from the binary distribution, and it seems likely that they would
download that anyway (or the libraries can be obtained from CVS).

The binary distribution contains both sets of documents, but the
images are now shared, which saves a bit, and the docs themselves are
not very large (and they compress well).

One other change I made was to drop the _bin suffix from the binary
distribution.

I hope these changes are OK?

I'm happy to change them if not...

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Re: Changes to distribution archive file contents

[Peter Lin <wo...@gmail.com>]

that sounds fine to me.  I don't have  a preference either way. 

peter


On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 01:48:45 +0100, sebb <se...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've made some changes to build.xml (e.g. it now generates MD5
> checksums), and the release distributions now have the following
> content:
> 
> jakarta-jmeter-version.* (binary)
> - Jmeter jars
> - 3rd party jars
> - printable docs (used by Help)
> - "site" docs (i.e. with left hand menu)
> 
> jakarta-jmeter-version_src.* (source)
> - all source
> - javadocs
> 
> This is a slight change from the previous 2.0 releases, which did not
> include the javadocs at all, and  included the 3rd party jars in the
> source archive as well as in the binary archive.
> 
> It seems to me that the javadocs are mostly of interest to those who
> want the source, so it seems unnecessary to add to the size of the
> binary download by including them in it - after all, they total some
> 24MB!
> 
> Likewise, it seems unnecessary to add the 3rd party libraries to the
> source distribution; anyone wanting to build the source can get them
> from the binary distribution, and it seems likely that they would
> download that anyway (or the libraries can be obtained from CVS).
> 
> The binary distribution contains both sets of documents, but the
> images are now shared, which saves a bit, and the docs themselves are
> not very large (and they compress well).
> 
> One other change I made was to drop the _bin suffix from the binary
> distribution.
> 
> I hope these changes are OK?
> 
> I'm happy to change them if not...
> 
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