Re: [Bodington-developers] i18n res updated : fixed

[Alistair Y. <ali...@sm...>]

Bodington isn't designed to be run in an environment without a JDK. If yo=
u
want to shoehorn it into such an environment for the sake of ease of
deployment you're opening a huge can of worms.

If you want people to see what it's like give them PDFs! or install a
public version that they can login to and play with.

You can't give them a shaky halfway house that works for a defined period
of time, or are you planning on circumventing the timestamp checking for
such a deployment?

It seems your concerns are addressed by the knoppix CD anyway.

Alistair

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Alistair Young
Senior Software Engineer
UHI@Sabhal M=F2r Ostaig
Isle of Skye
Scotland

> Alexis O'Connor wrote:
>> Alistair Young wrote:
>>
>>>> If not then we
>>>> are changing Bodington so that it is no longer possible to deploy on=
 a
>>>> machine without a JDK.
>>>
>>>
>>> yep. that's bod though. What other web application *compiles* it's ow=
n
>>> pages? Don't you need a JDK anyway? What happens when XmlTemplate
>>> decides
>>> the class file is out of date and tries to recompile the template?
>>>
>>> By allowing the absence of the JDK you're telling users "you may neve=
r
>>> customise your templates".
>
> Yep. But if we are trying to make it easy for people to try Bodington I
> think this is acceptable.
>
>> Funnily enough I agree with Alistair on this one ;-). Requiring a JDK =
is
>> reasonable enough for these very reasons.
>
> If we are going to say people need a JDK this needs to be well
> documentation and Bodington needs to have a very clear error message
> when you try to run it on a machine without one (not a stack trace).
>
> I still think we should run without a JDK if they want too, especially
> with the quickstart WAR.
>
>> It would be cool if we could get the Eclipse JDT compiler of Tomcat 5.=
5
>> to compile Bodington templates.
>
> Indeed.
>
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