I am -1 for a change with out a bit more details.
I think that there is a significant advantage to having a small source
download.
How about a middle ground of having the following jars:
- source only (assumes you will use maven to download jars)
- source plus jars
- binary
Also, I have some question about the second option due largely to my maven
inexperience. Is there an easy way to tell maven that jars *might( be
present locally and that it doesn't need to download them? It would seem
really a bad idea to have to change the pom for different distributions.
To argue against my own point, is it the sense of the group that the
source-only need is satisfied by svn access?
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Patterson, Josh <[email protected]>wrote:
> I think this is probably a good idea from a base "simplest use case"
> viewpoint;
>
> If I come along and just want to try out something in Mahout as quickly
> as possible, I could download the jars and give something a quick try.
> If it works out for me, then that draws me further into thinking out
> looking at the actual source code and possibly contributing later down
> the road. Datamining, Hadoop, et al are complex enough for the average
> user --- why not provide an option that caters to the casual crowd and
> lowers that barrier to entry just a little?
>
> Its trivial to offer the jars and the rest of us can continue to use
> Maven/Ant to build as we like.
>
> Josh
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jake Mannix [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 2:23 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: download mahout-0.2 release
>
> So another thought on this: should we just provide jars as part of a
> distribution
> via a simple link on lucene.apache.org/mahout?
>
> So that people don't need to build from source?
>
> I mean, if we want to include artifacts, why not just put them on the
> site
> for download?
>
> -jake
>
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Drew Farris <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > +1 here too -- I opened
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-215to
> > track it.
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 11:55 AM, F.Ozgur Catak
> <[email protected]
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > +1 :)
> > >
> > > On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Jake Mannix <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Isabel Drost <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > On Tue Sean Owen <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > > > Yeah I think we should just include the .jars next time for
> > > > > > convenience.
> > > > >
> > > > > +1
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > +1 from me as well.
> > > >
> > > > -jake
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
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