There are lots of people who use the maxent software for various prediction tasks, and I think they would find it a pain to have to get the full download and then pull out the jar. Basically, the maxent/ml stuff serves a wider purpose than just the OpenNLP Toolkit, so I think it should have more separation.
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 6:14 AM, Jörn Kottmann <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/3/10 12:55 PM, Thilo Goetz wrote: > >> To my mind, it's totally a matter of taste. And I like >> this better ;-) My main reason would be that it provides >> a central trunk (which is what most everybody needs most >> of the time). You can just check out everything with >> svn co http://..../trunk opennlp, cd into opennlp and >> build. You don't have to go to 3 different places to >> get maxent, the toolkit and the UIMA wrappers. >> > > It used to be that all three projects had to be checked > out separately which I always found a little annoying. > > Also do not understand why we should not release > all three together, users which just want > maxent have the option to either just use maven (which some do) > or copy over the maxent jar file from the OpenNLP distributable. > > Having room for additional things like a corpus project could be nice, > because people who are interested in the source code might not > want to check out the corpus (if we ever get it created). > > Jörn > -- Jason Baldridge Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics The University of Texas at Austin http://comp.ling.utexas.edu/people/jason_baldridge
