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On Apr 14, 2011, at 8:41 AM, sebb <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
