Karl Richter created NUTCH-2428:
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Summary: Provide binary release for Nutch
Key: NUTCH-2428
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUTCH-2428
Project: Nutch
Issue Type: Wish
Components: build
Affects Versions: 2.3
Reporter: Karl Richter
I've been trying to setup a Nutch instance several times over the years, but
never managed because it's so hard to configure the instance based on some
parts of the 1.x tutorial and some parts of the 2.x tutorial which I had to
figure out in trial and error mostly (and 2^[# of configuration steps] is a
time consuming list of options to try). I already torpedoed the JIRA instance
with a lot of issues, but now that I'm taking another approach, I don't think I
can report them all and you might not want that.
I'd be nice to have a binary release of Nutch which works with a default
non-production configuration which can be changed via the web UI since editing
configuration files is just overly painful and makes the software appear in
some pre-alpha state in which it is not (download of binary archive,
extracting, `bin/nutch start-web` and opening localhost:8080 should get you
started).
Nutch is important and very smart software. I'd be nice if it was so hard to
use for no apparent reason (except devs resources of course).
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUTCH-728 covers releases, but it's been
closed and there's no binary release available for download. Debian packages as
suggested in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUTCH-1285 don't make sense
because they're not very flexible; they should be low-priority.
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