[Engine-devel] JBoss RPM vs JBoss zip file

[Itamar Heim]

On 12/28/2011 01:45 PM, Oved Ourfalli wrote:
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Ronen Angluster"<ranglust at redhat.com>
>> To: engine-devel at ovirt.org
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 12:38:25 PM
>> Subject: [Engine-devel] JBoss RPM vs JBoss zip file
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I guess this discussion was being carried offline and i wanted
>> to get the as many opinions as possible about this issue.
>>
>> Currently, we provide the users with 2 methods of handling JBoss AS's
>> deployments:
>> 1. Download the zip file from jboss.org and deploy it wherever the
>> user
>> wishes.
>> 2. Install a specially crafted RPM that is designed&  destined to
>> work
>> with the ovirt-engine's RPM set of files.
>> (This is a temporary deployment phase that will end when jboss will
>> release their own set of RPMs)
>>
>> in MHO, i think that the RPM deployment should be used ONLY when
>> installing the ovirt-engine RPMs and not
>> when using the ovirt-engine's git repository for development.
>> especially since deployment to the file system of the host requires
>> root
>> permissions and this is not something that
>> should be a consideration when you're developing code.
>> I think that developers should use the JBoss zip package and deploy
>> it
>> locally, and NOT use the ovirt-engine-jbossas RPM.
>>
>> opinions?
>
> I totally agree.
> We can ease the process by maybe supplying a maven profile that downloads it for you automatically, and make all the proper configurations,
> but I don't see a reason to use our jboss RPM in a development environment.
>
> However, I expect developers to use the jboss offical RPM, when it will be available.

so you are still saying developers should use jboss from rpm, not zip (i 
agree btw).
i don't see why jboss from rpm would be different from postgres from 
rpm, etc.
if the distro has a packaged version - it should be used.

>
>>
>> Ronen
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