Re: [Springframework-developer] 1.0 M3 prepared

[Mike Cannon-B. <mi...@at...>]

Can I make some suggestions before the release?

A) ship all source with the release, including samples. I don't see why we
need multiple ZIPs? It just complicates things and will frustrate users
trying out spring IMHO. Noone really cares if it's 11MB do they? (apologies
if this is an old already discussed issue - I'm just not sure the reason fo=
r
two JARs)

B) Can we please, please, please version the JARs shipped? Eg
aopalliance.jar is useless for people building apps, what version is it?
Managing dependencies explicitly is important - make it
aopalliance-alpha1.jar or aopalliance-23Nov03.jar if it's from CVS etc.

C) On a slightly related note, I couldn't find any docs (maybe I'm blind) o=
n
the exact syntax of the applicationContext.xml file? (ie how to set lists,
booleans etc)=20

Cheers,
Mike

On 23/11/03 3:05 PM, "tri...@tr..." (tri...@tr...) penned the
words:

> +1 for including the sample source in the base download.  It's good as a
> reference.  I have updated the MVC step-by-step document to reflect the n=
eed
> to
> download both zips.
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> Thomas
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> Quoting Colin Sampaleanu <col...@ex...>:
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>> j=FCrgen h=F6ller [werk3AT] wrote:
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>>> FYI, I've already committed the renaming from ListableBeanFactoryImpl t=
o
>> DefaultListableBeanFactory. The web MVC exception stuff will follow
>> tomorrow.
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>>> I've also reworked the Tiles example, using
>> org.springframework.samples.tiles as package now, and auto-detecting the
>> Tiles DTD. The FileNameViewController has now moved to
>> org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc. And I've changed my mind: I do like=
 to
>> include struts-1.1.jar and commons-digester.jar now, for an out-of-the-b=
ox
>> working example. It already annoys me having to copy those files in for
>> testing, so consider a new user...
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>>> I've just modified our build script to generate two release zips:
>> spring-framework-1.0-m3.zip (~5600 KB) and
>> spring-framework-1.0-m3-samples.zip (~5400 KB). Both use
>> spring-framework-1.0-m3 as path in the zip, for convenient extraction to=
 the
>> same location. The former contains dist, docs, lib/aop-alliance,
>> lib/jakarta-commons/commons-logging.jar, src, and the readmes, while the
>> latter contains samples and the additional libs necessary for building a=
nd
>> running them.
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>>> What do you think? Should I commit the changed build script and use it =
for
>> the M3 release? I believe it would make sense to split the release into =
those
>> two files, as 11 MB is already a bit large for a single distribution.
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>>> Juergen
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>> It probably makes sense to split things up this way. If somebody doesn't
>> care about the libs for the samples it's a drag to pull them down each
>> release. Maybe it would make sense though to still include _sources_ for
>> the samples even with the first jar. Sample sources sometimes help you
>> figure stuff out that is not really related. I know that when I was
>> initially looking at Spring and figuring out Application Contexts, I
>> looked at all the contexts in all the samples, even if I had no interest
>> at that time in actually building those samples or using those parts of
>> Spring (like the MVC).
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>> Colin
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