Shibboleth Developers

[Walter Hoehn <>]

Scott Cantor wrote:
> > Proceeding along my line of dumb-ass questions, I'm wondering 
> > if the origin tarball will continue to include all the stuff 
> > it currently includes, or if it can (or should, or will) just 
> > include necessary doc files, and /bin, and 
> > dist/shibboleth.war.  Seems like if all the source stuff 
> > isn't necessary for a binary distro it may as well be left 
> > out rather than potentially confusing the poor 
> > binary-installing sysadmin? Or am I misunderstanding what's needed?
>
>
> I'm speaking for Walter out of turn, but I would guess he included the source 
> either because we've been pre 1.0 all along or because
> edit/ant/copy war really is the way it works (or is designed to work).

One reason is that I think the method Scott described (where you 
actually edit the source config files and deploy the war) is a pretty 
nice way of setting things up and I wanted knowledgeable people to be 
able to do this if they chose.  Bob speculated in an earlier email that 
this might not be the best setup for sysadmin types.  I tend to agree, 
or at least I am unsure.  In my uncertainty, I decided to support both 
sorts of setups.

Another reason is that I have, up until this release, thought that the 
origin wasn't very usable without reworking the default "attribute 
back-end" code.  I certainly had to make local mods to hook previous 
versions up to the directory here.  I still think many people will need 
to implement the Attribute Definition PlugIns until we have more 
built-in functionality.

Anyway, I don't have a problem with changing the way we do this, we 
could just take out the source or make a separate src tar.  Either  way, 
though, I would like to examine the various install/upgrade processes 
and see which is the easiest for most people to understand.

> The flaw in that is the ARPs, since one would expect those to be externally 
> accessible and editable.

The configuration method you described still works with file:// URLs.

-Walter

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Walter F. Hoehn, Jr
Systems Programmer
Columbia University - EPIC
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