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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
>>>> 
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