Hi Jacques, The discussion we had in OFBIZ-7783 was basically around whether or not we should have a task to copy the gradle dependencies into a certain directory. We went through many discussions, the last one being that this task might be needed for binary releases.
However, if you look at the reference that _you_ provided you will notice that is says that you "may only add binary/bytecode files that are the result of compiling that version of the source code release" We are _NOT_ compiling any of the dependencies, instead, the build system downloads them from jcenter in a precompiled form. In other words we cannot include the dependencies in the binary releases anyway. So people must use Gradle to download the dependencies, and so the whole purpose of the binary release becomes unnecessary as you must have gradle and java installed on your computer. Taher Alkhateeb On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 5:36 PM, Jacques Le Roux < jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com> wrote: > Hi, > > At https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-7783 we recently had a > discussion with Taher about doing or not binary releases. > > This is how the ASF defines a binary release ( > http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html#what) > > <<All releases are in the form of the source materials needed to make > changes to the software being released. In some cases, binary/bytecode > packages are also produced as a convenience to users that might not have > the appropriate tools to build a compiled version of the source. In all > such cases, the binary/bytecode package must have the same version number > as the source release and may only add binary/bytecode files that are the > result of compiling that version of the source code release.>> > > So the question is simple (not the answer, you need to think ahead): do we > want to do binary releases? It comes with some burden, does it worth it? No > needs to rush an answer :) > > If you want more information you can already look at the conversation we > had Pierre, Taher and I at OFBIZ-7783 > > Thanks > > Jacques > > >
