I was just about to respond similarly. My version is: Apache is not “people”. Apache is the organization that we have certain obligations to, such as the source package you mention. “People” is our customers and plenty of them are using the Installer and the binary packages. Let’s focus on the customers.
-Alex On 11/5/15, 10:29 PM, "Harbs" <harbs.li...@gmail.com> wrote: >Justin, > >While that’s technically true, the vast majority of users would want a >convenience package. > >On Nov 6, 2015, at 8:23 AM, Justin Mclean <justinmcl...@me.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >>> People who are having trouble with building are trying to build from >>>the >>> source distribution and/or the Git repository. Things are a little more >>> complicated that way, but the vast majority of people won't need to >>>deal >>> with that type of build. >> >> The building from source is important as far as Apache is concerned. In >>fact of the source package is considered the release [1][2] >> >> Thanks, >> Justin >> >> 1. http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html#what >> 2. >>http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html#what-must-every-release-contain >
