Maven 1

Distribute documentation with binaries

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  • Type: Improvement Improvement
  • Status: Open Open
  • Priority: Major Major
  • Resolution: Unresolved
  • Affects Version/s: 1.0-rc3
  • Fix Version/s: None
  • Component/s: core
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Description

The current maven distribution is almost unusable without a net connection. There is not even a readme!

This needs to change before the final release, if only so new users will know to set up a MAVEN_HOME, and run "maven -help" and "maven -g" to get help on what the system can do.

Distributing the getting started guide is essential, and perhaps the plugin documentation.

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Ben Walding added a comment -

I personally think that the documents should be packaged, but not inside the distribution

perhaps...

maven-1.0-final.zip (code + docs)
maven-1.0-final-src.zip (src + docs)
maven-1.0-final-bin.zip (code)

rinse and repeat for tar.gz (or tar.bz2)

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Ben Walding added a comment - I personally think that the documents should be packaged, but not inside the distribution perhaps... maven-1.0-final.zip (code + docs) maven-1.0-final-src.zip (src + docs) maven-1.0-final-bin.zip (code) rinse and repeat for tar.gz (or tar.bz2)
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Lukas Theussl added a comment -

I think we should include the pdf inside a docs/ directory of the binary distribution. WDYT?

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Lukas Theussl added a comment - I think we should include the pdf inside a docs/ directory of the binary distribution. WDYT?

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    Reporter:
    Richard Atkins
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