Re: [jetty-dev] Re: jetty7 distribution

[Chad La Joie <chad.lajoie@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah, I understand that you could end up with quite a plethora of 
options.  For me, personally, I don't so much care because my first 
"real" use of Jetty is going to be bundling it with other software so 
I'm going to have to create a custom distribution anyways.  I was more 
just thinking out loud.  If the IP issues around the JSP support are 
soon to be resolved then I would probably just go with what you 
originally proposed, if it were my call.

Greg Wilkins wrote:
> 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,
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> and there is the rub!
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> Once you consider external dependencies, there are so many combinations:
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> 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.
>
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> We are never going to make a distro that is exactly right for everybody.
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> 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.
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> So the question is, do we go for
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>   minimal @ eclipse
>   moderate @ codehaus
>   maximal @ codehaus
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> or just go for
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>   moderate @ eclipse
>   maximal @ codehaus
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> 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?
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> cheers
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