I don't think it includes binary .jar files. You build them but I agree, would be much more convenient to provide them. Is this easy to do? I don't know.
That said I am still +1 on the release as is. It has been 2 months since we started trying to pull this together and think it's well in good enough shape. On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Drew Farris <drew.far...@gmail.com> wrote: > For what it's worth I downloaded all of the artifacts and verified > their signatures using gpg -- everything checked out. > > I'm curious about the binary release. I couldn't seem to find a binary > tarball/zip in the repo anywhere. For example, I unrolled > mahout-0.2-project.tar.gz and there were no jar files in there. > (although I could build from that directory without a problem). > > Are binary releases staged elsewhere? > > On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Grant Ingersoll <gsing...@apache.org> wrote: >> Please vote on releasing the artifacts at: >> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachemahout-002/org/apache/mahout/ >> >> KEYS file is in the Mahout root trunk. >> >> Things to do before voting: >> >> 1. Download and verify signatures on all the artifacts. >> 2. Try out the tests, examples, etc. >> 3. Try it out in any apps that you have. >> 4. See the Apache pages on releases and see what else I'm missing. >> 5. Others? >