On 12/17/12 6:05 AM, ben fleis wrote:
As a somewhat related follow up, what are the team's intentions wrt
releasing jar files, period? I see source tarballs, but no precompiled,
ready-to-run jars in the download section. Is this in the roadmap, easily
obtained, etc? For some deployment (like mine, where my client is in
another language, and just uses the console consumer as a proxy), there is
little want or need to get the whole build system involved.
There is work being done to get artifacts into Maven (KAFKA-133). What
most people (including myself) do is
manually add Kafka + runtime deps to an artifact manager like Nexus or
Artifactory.
Also, I agree with you about the extra pain of developing a pure java
client. The benefits don't seem particularly strong. Developing a C/++
client in parallel, that would skip the code duplication problem, help with
the "single perspective" problem, and be an somewhat easy-entrance for
other languages capable of easily integrating via extension compilation.
ben
