Isnt a binary didtribution always a download where you have to pull out a
jar? A few kb more package size do not really matter IMHO. Jörn
On Dec 3, 2010 4:50 PM, "Jason Baldridge" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>>
>
>
>
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> Jason Baldridge
> Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics
> The University of Texas at Austin
> http://comp.ling.utexas.edu/people/jason_baldridge
