Justin, While that’s technically true, the vast majority of users would want a convenience package.
On Nov 6, 2015, at 8:23 AM, Justin Mclean <justinmcl...@me.com> wrote: > Hi, > >> People who are having trouble with building are trying to build from the >> source distribution and/or the Git repository. Things are a little more >> complicated that way, but the vast majority of people won't need to deal >> with that type of build. > > The building from source is important as far as Apache is concerned. In fact > of the source package is considered the release [1][2] > > Thanks, > Justin > > 1. http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html#what > 2. http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html#what-must-every-release-contain
