Marc Portier wrote:No, these reasons aren't valid. In fact, I don't believe they ever were valid.
- I would like us to make binaries again somewhere soon. Apart from the outcome of that discussion I find it odd to use the way we distribute as an argument for anything mentioned here, no?
I guess as soon as we have real blocks we can switch to binary releases again if we want. But the reasons for recompiling are of course still valid.
We need a 'build' process, but not necessarily a 'compilation' process.
We could have a distribution that includes all of the jar files ready compiled. Then, when the user has unpacked this distribution, they edit their local.blocks.properties, etc, and run build, which prepares the webapp, copying only those precompiled jars across that are actually needed, and running the XConfPatch task, etc, etc.
I imagine this would be quicker for the user, and would probably result in a far smaller distribution.
Regards, Upayavira
