On Thu Grant Ingersoll <[email protected]> wrote: > Keep in mind that we may not be able to redistribute all jars, which > is why we rely on Maven, for better or worse.
As for the jars we depend on: I assume that not all of Mahout depends on all libraries. Say the clustering code certainly does not depend on HBase. Especially for those users who do not want to use maven for their project, it might be pretty interesting to know, which libraries are needed by the components they are specifically interested in. That way they only need to download what is really needed. Maybe it might be helpful for them to have a list of deep links into the repositories where we draw our dependencies from. I generally do not like the idea of forcing our users to use maven to comfortably work with Mahout. I also think it could be scary to those using maven to see the classpath of their project filled with lots and lots of jars that they may not even need for the particular algorithm they are interested in? Isabel
