[MOBY-dev] [moby] Re: MobyServlet.war should not be there

[Mark Wilkinson]

I don't think that putting it at the top level of moby-live will
necessarily help the situation - many (most?) people simply check-out
moby-live, rather than moby-live/Perl or moby-live/Java, so they will
still get this large file when they do a checkout.

If you send me the URL and a description I can add it to the "Tools"
page on biomoby.org.  I wonder if it is time to re-think the link
structure of the website again to make these kinds of resources more
prominent?

M




On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 14:06 -0600, Paul Gordon wrote:
> Hi Martin,
> 
> Sorry for the inconvenience. 
> 
> Unfortunately you cannot create it with Ant.  It includes a few files 
> not yet in the repository, and anyway would absolutely require the user 
> to have a "virgin" JRE (i.e. with no extra libraries installed, 
> otherwise I can't guarantee the WAR is self-contained).  I can, however, 
> repoint the docs to my own Web site to download it.  I will do this today. 
> 
> It would be nice to have somewhere in CVS where large binaries can be 
> plopped for the public to download...should we create one at the top 
> level of moby-live somewhere?
> > Paul and all,
> >     I had big problems when teaching jMoby. Your file MobyServlet.war is 10
> > MB long and it causes real problems for people with a slower connection.
> >    I also think (even though I cannot be fully sure) that such files (war
> > files) could be created from other pieces that are already part of jMoby CVS
> > - and therefore they should not be in CVS at all. There should be an ant
> > script that creates them if needed.
> >    Sorry, Paul, but I have to remove the file. I understand that this is not
> > an ideal step - because now your documentation is out of sync - but I simply
> > did not have other options. Please, please, do not put it back - but make an
> > ant task to create it (for example).
> >
> >    Thank you and I apologize for this rather drastic move.
> >    Martin
> >
> >   
> 
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