Re: Distributing projects.

I have a project that I've been working on, and its nearly ready for
beta distribution. It's on sourceforge if that makes any difference.

The program itself can be distributed as a single executable jar file,
but there are other files that should be included. For one thing, at
least some "getting started" documentation. For another thing, sample
files for use within the program. The samples should be part of the
default installation, because they will be useful to most people.

So, what are some common ways of handling this? I could build a couple
of distributions (.zip, .tgz, .tar.bz2), and let people install them
manually, but I'd rather make it as easy as possible.

Also, I have literally no budget for this, so any solution should be
free (free beer, not necessarily free speech). It is an open source
project if that makes other options available.