On 6/24/05, James Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > Wrom: SZLKBRNVWWCUFPEGAUTFJMVRESKPNKMBIPBARHDMN > To: "MyFaces Development" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 10:08 PM > Subject: Re: Proposal: Elimiante jar files from SVN > > > > James Mitchell wrote: > > > >> Unless I missed it somewhere, no one has mentioned the extra bloat in > >> your source distributions (if you include the binary dependencies). > > > > James, > > > > you need the binary dependencies anyway to build the project, so what is > > your point? You download the source distribution with libs included or > > you download the source distribution without libs and ant does the lib > > download afterwards. The sum of required network traffic is the same. > > > > That's true for the developer. But I was also considering ASF hardware and > bandwidth. Again, that's a drop in the bucket if only MyFaces were doing > it. But you are not. I have had this same conversation (beating the same > dead horse) with developers on other projects, both here, sf.net, and many, > MANY closed source projects.
To reinforce this point, even though *you* (someone downloading the CVS or SVN sources of a project) does not pay for the network bandwidth, the ASF *does* pay for it. I'd rather see that money supporting more users, rather than downloading zillions of copies of the same JAR files. For the record, I am absolutely and totally -1 on including JAR files in the source code repository of any Apache project that I work on. Including them in a binary distribution, of course, is a totally different animal. Craig
