Re: jxta download revamp

BTW, help w/ crafting the HTML, etc is *hugely* appreciated.

- james

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James Todd wrote:
> 
> Hey -
> 
>  I took a little swing at revamping the JXTA Download page yesterday, 
> starting
>  w/ the nightlies:
> 
>    http://download.jxta.org/build/nightly
> 
>  I'd like to remove extraneous build artifacts and have identified the 
> following:
> 
>    platform :: jxtaSwing.jar, jxtaextservice.war, jxtaext.jar
> 
>    note: jxatext.jar and it's dependencies are available in jxta-lib-*.zip
> 
>  I need confirmation to the above and have registered issue #1336:
> 
>    http://platform.jxta.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1366
> 
>  Agreeing or disagreeing via email is a fine means to hash this one out, 
> but
>  I would like to close this issue in the spirit of making the JXTA 
> downloads
>  beyone easy. I have more in store down the road.
> 
>  In stepping back a bit it has been suggested the resulting page contains
>  too much info, namely like links to project home page, maven reports and
>  extraneous jnlp files.
> 
>  Taking this into account I have boiled out all of the above to a general
>  "build" page and have uploaded it to:
> 
>    http://download.jxta.org/build
> 
>  This page can be viewed as a JXTA build Rosetta Stone and is intentionally
>  consistent in format across projects. With this page in place and given it
>  sits above the nightly and release pages we should be able to remove all
>  links but the actual downloads on the nightly (and release) page.
> 
>  Some issues do remain (eg better space utilage) but I would appreciate 
> some
>  quick feedback, pub or private, as to is this helping or not and if 
> not, what
>  would you suggest
> 
>  much appreciated,
> 
> - james
>