Github user ahgittin commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/brooklyn-dist/pull/13#issuecomment-194837203
this is a good question. we hesitated before requiring `go`, in the end we
tentatively concluded:
* the default build *does* build everything
* a maven property allows some parts easily to be skipped, e.g.
`-Dno-go-client` (see in uber's `pom`)
* if you're missing a requirement we show a nice error message (see in
brooklyn-client `release/build.sh`) explaining
* how to fix
* how to skip
@alrick87 if you `grep -r no-go-client` you should find all the references
to
* go being required
* being able to skip it
suggest we do the same for docker images, rpm/deb, eventually npm, anything
which isn't pure java.
if we start to have a lot then it might be easier to introduce a
`just-java` property which also disables the non-portable build items and
simply document that in the "quick build" instructions, with a reference from
there to the `maven-build` docs where we detail the properties.
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