Skip to content

Document the differences between distros and extensions #6047

@trask

Description

@trask

Motivated by #6041

Trying to come up with a list of things relevant to users (not vendors) that differentiate these two approaches.

Extension pros:

  • Much simpler to build (e.g. doesn't require package relocations)
  • Don't need to rebuild with each OpenTelemetry Javaagent release (once extension API is declared stable at least)

Distro pros:

  • Can add your own dependencies to the bootstrap class loader

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

No one assigned

    Labels

    documentationImprovements or additions to documentation

    Type

    No type

    Projects

    No projects

    Milestone

    No milestone

    Relationships

    None yet

    Development

    No branches or pull requests

    Issue actions