[indiana-discuss] Brief (blogged) thoughts on packaging

[Richard Elling]

Jason J. W. Williams wrote:
> XML-based would be very nice. Even it were just an XML-build language
> that generated the final package ala the WiX project for MSIs
> (http://wix.sourceforge.net/). One of the nice things about using an
> XML build language is integration with an automated build process.

FWIW, I use ant every day, but I've never had to hand edit a build.xml file.

> It does seem to me that have an integrated package with installation
> instructions and the binary data is preferable to two files. Easier to
> distribute and less moving parts for the user.

PaCkAgE DaTaStReAm is rarely used.  But jars are used quite often.  There
should be a lesson there, somewhere.
  -- richard