On 12/12/13, 6:50 PM, Gary Gregory wrote: > Hi All: > > We talk on and off as to how painful it is to release components. > > One of these pains is that we distribute to multiple places: An Apache > "dist" folder and the Apache Maven repository. > > Clearly, Maven is here to stay. > > So why not deploy the -src and -bin files to Maven and forget about dist. A > URL is a URL, what do users care is the URL points deep into "dist" or our > Maven repo. I for one, need the -bin zips for certain Apache projects > (JMeter, ActiveMQ) so my Ant Ivy builds can download and install them. > > I know we have some legal requirements to host at least the sources and > that we provide binaries as a "courtesy" but does it matter _where_ the > files are on Apache servers?
The releases need to be mirrored. That's what dist is for. Phil > > Thoughts? > > Gary > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
