[infinispan-dev] Single jar zip file, what's your thoughts on it?

[Manik Surtani]

On 16 Jun 2010, at 08:55, galder at redhat.com wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Re: http://community.jboss.org/message/548002#548002
> 
> This is the 2nd time I've seen people having issues with the single jar zip file. What's the aim of it?

To provide a single jar which people can include in their classpath rather than a set of jars which include Infinispan classes, dependencies, etc.

> People using it have generally been trying to simply get started with core Infinispan jar and its dependencies, nothing else. When they look at the single jar and all the dependencies in lib/, they seem quite baffled and have issues as in the case above.
> 
> I think -bin.zip and -all.zip should be enough.
> 
> Maybe we should create a poll on this?

+1.  So far under 10% of the downloads have been this single-jar archive (not counting usage via Maven, of course, which would use finer-grained jars).

If folks don't mind getting rid of this, I'm all for it.

Cheers
Manik

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