On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Chip Childers <chip.child...@sungard.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 11:57 AM, David Nalley <da...@gnsa.us> wrote: >> As a packager, and a sysadmin, I really dislike how maven operates - I >> understand why it is so popular with the dev crowd, but many of those >> things that make it popular are reasons for not using it IMO. >> >> And yes, ant is already in place, and largely works. > > IMO, we should still get the JARs out of the code repo, and host them > somewhere else. Keeping pre-compiled libs within the source tree > makes it much larger than it needs to be. > > -chip
I've been watching the discussion of Kafka on incubator-general and their inclusion of binary jars. https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201206.mbox/%3CCANEBM31vtRxG%3D_yON3884_Qj8pTvMDKVo9p2V2giVx9k4xHe4Q%40mail.gmail.com%3E And at least at present it looks like shipping binaries within a source release is frowned upon. --David
