On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 4:28 AM, Branko Čibej <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 26.03.2015 08:47, [email protected] wrote: > > Author: dsetrakyan > > Date: Thu Mar 26 07:47:28 2015 > > New Revision: 1669287 > > > > URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1669287 > > > Well, in my opinion, the source download should be first on the page, > not the binaries. Binaries are not official releases; the sources are. > We should be encouraging people to use the sources. > Brane, Our release build procedure which builds the binary, requires that you must be under the GIT root. The reason is that it automatically grabs the version from the GIT server in order to imprint it into the release. So the build you are suggesting does not even work. User would still be able to build the maven modules, but user cannot build the actual binary release, hence the -P-release option. I don't mind having a separate discussion about how useful it is for our users to build a complete binary from the source zip (and not from GIT), but in the mean time, I cannot call it the recommended way, because it is not. Do you mind if I update the text? D. > -- Brane >
