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Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 09:49:57 -0400
From: "Adam Lally" <alally@alum.rpi.edu>
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Subject: Re: Installer in UIMA Apache
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On 4/15/07, Benjamin Sznajder <benjams@il.ibm.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I used until now the IBM UIMA (from watson's site) and I am passing now to
> the Apache version.
> I permit myself to suggest the following:
> In IBM version, the user was able to download the installer that made for
> him all the work. Why there is not such utility in Apache's version, namely
> an installer that would set the desired property values?
>

Primarily this is because InstallShield is not free, and now that
we're at Apache we prefer using freely available tools to build our
distribution.  There might be a free alternative we could try (I
haven't looked), but it doesn't seem to be common among Apache
projects to provide an installer.


> In addition, I think that there is no clear information about how to
> install the UIMA Sdk. In fact, there is no real intuitive place where the
> user can find this information. It is only said "by the way" in the
> documentation.
>

The README is intended to provide this information.  Is there any
important information that you could not find there?


> And a last question: why is the README file (in the zip) with no suffix ?
> Why .txt is not suitable?
>

It seemed to be a common Apache convention, although it's not an
absolute rule and some other projects do use .txt.  I don't feel
strongly about it either way.  Anyone else have an opinion?

-Adam