Re: [jetty-dev] Re: jetty7 distribution

[Greg Wilkins <gregw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chad La Joie wrote:
> Hey Greg,
> 
> For what it's worth, it seems like there would be a number of
> individuals who would want JSP support but not the additional things
> included in Jetty 6 Hightide.  But I may be biased because I fall in to
> the group just described.  Until the IP issues around the JSP support
> get worked out, would you consider building a jetty-distirbution@eclipse
> + JSP@codehaus version?

Chad,

and there is the rub!


Once you consider external dependencies, there are so many combinations:

jetty
jetty+jsp
jetty+jndi
jetty+jsp+jndi
jetty+slf4j
jetty+jsp+slf4j
jetty+jndi+slf4j
jetty+jsp+jndi+slf4j
jetty+annotations
jetty+jsp+annotations
jetty+jndi+annotations
jetty+jsp+jndi+annotations
jetty+slf4j+annotations
jetty+jsp+slf4j+annotations
jetty+jndi+slf4j+annotations
jetty+jsp+jndi+slf4j+annotations
etc.


We are never going to make a distro that is exactly right for everybody.

What we did in jetty-6 was to have 2 distro's one close to simplest possible
and hightide which is moderately optioned up.

I think that gives a good starting point for most.


So the question is, do we go for

  minimal @ eclipse
  moderate @ codehaus
  maximal @ codehaus


or just go for

  moderate @ eclipse
  maximal @ codehaus


I admit that the moderate@eclipse might initially be a little more
of a minimal@eclipse. But the IP issue around JSP is solvable and just work/time.

So do we create a new moderate @ codehaus distro to fill in the
short term gap - and then have to support that for the long term,
or do we stick with 2 distros because we know the solution is
not that far away?

cheers