The Maven artifacts are for development. There is no need to install anything separately when developing Apex applications, including the testing in embedded mode.
An installation is needed to launch applications on the cluster and the options I mentioned are for that. Have not seen users asking for a different convenience package yet, but I'm sure if we see the demand we can provide a tar ball or zip file. Thomas On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 1:34 PM, Hitesh Shah <[email protected]> wrote: > I am not sure if that is entirely accurate. Convenience binaries usually > refer to a final assembled/package bundle that can be deployed in the > end-user env. > > thanks > — Hitesh > > On Mar 2, 2016, at 11:51 AM, Thomas Weise <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Binaries are the jar files in Maven. For the Apex developer, everything > is > > driven through Maven, starting from the archetype. > > Explicit install is only needed for the CLI. Following are the available > > options: > > > > - Checkout from git: https://github.com/apache > > > /incubator-apex-core/blob/5f216a1bd27a94785c9ccada78101f892be95cbe/README > > .md#user-content-building-apex > > < > https://github.com/apache/incubator-apex-core/blob/5f216a1bd27a94785c9ccada78101f892be95cbe/README.md#user-content-building-apex > > > > - Download and install DataTorrent community edition > > - Bigtop with newly added Apex component > > - We are also working on Ambari integration > > > > We should probably add a bit more info on the download page. > > > > Thomas > > > > > > On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 10:39 AM, Hitesh Shah <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> I believe RE40 is still pending? > >> > >> — Hitesh > >> > >> On Mar 2, 2016, at 1:38 AM, Chinmay Kolhatkar <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >>> Hello Community, > >>> > >>> We've created an initial project maturity model on apex website: > >>> http://apex.incubator.apache.org/maturity.html > >>> > >>> This model is based on based on ASF project maturity model. > >>> > >>> On the webpage, green check icon next to the element means it is > >> achieved. > >>> Red cross icon mean, its not achieved or is in progress. > >>> > >>> Please have a look at it and provide your valuable feedback. > >>> > >>> Thanks, > >>> Chinmay. > >> > >> > >
