Good point. I don't know if any Apache projects do that by themselves, but in some cases maybe a Docker image could be a binary distribution to consider. MavenCentral/Sonatype seems to have lost the lead on that, but Bintray (their mirror and equivalent to MavenCentral is JCenter) did a lot for Docker. Performance-co-Pilot has multiple Docker images and also Linux packages like RPM. Especially the Groovy community loves Bintray, everything related to Groovy or Gradle can be found there first.
On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 9:22 AM, Anatole Tresch <atsti...@gmail.com> wrote: > the fsct is that the bin dist is THE dist. maven downlads sre only > convenience. btw also with maven the licensing is the same... > > Am 03.05.2017 09:08 schrieb "Oliver B. Fischer" <o.b.fisc...@swe-blog.net > >: > > > Hi, > > > > John wrote in a comment on TAMAYA-144: " As a reminder, ASF produces > > source releases not binaries." > > > > I never questioned if we need a binary distribution or not. But as we > also > > distribute our binaries also via Maven Central may be we should provide > > only our source distribution? > > > > I can't remember when I last time downloaded a jar and added it to the > > classpath and... > > > > WDYT? > > > > Oliver > > > > -- > > N Oliver B. Fischer > > A Schönhauser Allee 64, 10437 Berlin, Deutschland/Germany > > P +49 30 44793251 > > M +49 178 7903538 > > E o.b.fisc...@swe-blog.net > > S oliver.b.fischer > > J oliver.b.fisc...@jabber.org > > X http://xing.to/obf > > > > >
