Yep, ZOOKEEPER-3530 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-3530> was me. :) Sorry to not bring this discussion to the mailing list...
I think having a ...-lib.tgz file generated by maven makes sense, so people who are using the C client / C libraries can have them built into a single file on their platform. I think this is also something that apache bigtop is looking for. This was something that we had in zookeeper 3.4 as well, but we loose this after the maven migration. Actually having this file generated during the build doesn't mean that we have to upload to any official ftp site. It doesn't need to be part of any official (or "convenience") file we share during the release procedure. Still, you think it is a bad thing to generate this file together with the other two artifacts, I propose to hide it behind a maven option. So if someone wish to make this artifact for himself (e.g. we are using it in our company) then he would still be able to do so, by using a new maven options like `mvn clean install -Pfull-build -Pgenerate-native-artifact`. Kind regards, Mate On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 7:10 PM Andor Molnar <an...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > On 2020. Jan 16., at 18:10, Patrick Hunt <ph...@apache.org> wrote: > > > >> 2) “lib” tarball > >> I think we’ve already talked about releasing C binaries and I had always > >> been against it. These libraries are not portable and unless we release > >> separate artifacts for all major distributions (including Windows?), I > >> don’t see the point of introducing it. Plus the things that Patrick > >> mentioned, I strongly believe that we should remove it from the release. > >> > >> > > Sorry if I missed, but was this actually discussed? I don't remember > seeing > > it on the mailing list - big shifts like this deserve a community wide > > discussion thread, and perhaps even a vote, imo. > > No worries it wasn’t really a discussion and as far as I remember it > happened on github. I’ve found the Jira: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-3530 > > …but can’t find my comment, so it probably happened earlier. > > Anyway, ticket has been closed already, Enrico is removing it from this > release, so if somebody has a very very strong feeling to resurrect the > topic, feel free to email the @dev list. > > Andor > > >
