On 14 April 2011 16:14, Peter Lynch <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm trying to understand why the nightlies have a _bin.zip and _lib.zip > instead of just a single .zip like the official 2.4 release did. > > I know the _lib.zip contains the third party jars and _bin.zip contains > everything else - but why not a single .zip like the official release?
Because the 3rd party jars rarely change, and at the time this was set up, broadband was not generally available. Nightlies are intended for developers only; it's convenient not to have to download everything each time. > -Peter > > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 9:24 AM, sebb <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 14 April 2011 14:14, Peter Lynch <[email protected]> wrote: >> > The nightlies require unzipping two files to make a usable runtime as >> > described here http://people.apache.org/builds/jakarta-jmeter/nightly/ . >> > >> > Is it correct to assume that the a final release will just be one >> > distributable? >> >> Sort of. >> >> There is a binary dist and a source dist, and each is available as zip >> and tar.gz, so there are actually 4 archives (plus hashes and sigs). >> >> However only one binary is needed to run JMeter. >> >> Here is the download page: >> >> http://jakarta.apache.org/site/downloads/downloads_jmeter.cgi >> >> > -Peter >> > >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> > > > -- > Peter Lynch > http://blog.peterlynch.ca > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
