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Hoss Man commented on LUCENE-6258:
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bq. If this is true, that we have different line endings depending on the
format, then this is bogus IMO. We don't say "windows" and "unix/mac" in the
filename to indicate zip is for one and tgz for the others.
maybe we should? ... my memory may also be faulty. my point is: before
throwing away a file type, it's worth looking at why we have that file type.
bq. Regarding "end users are only helped", then why don't we also release in
.7zip, or .rar or any other container format?
maybe we should? ... the point here is: i think decisions about what formats we
release binary artifacts should primarily be drive by whats best for the user,
not what makes life easier for developers.
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bq. But that is a real problem. Releases take a long time for the release
manager to deal with. Cutting down on what has to be transferred/tested will
allow us iterate more quickly.
if that's the goal of this issue then the summary & description are somewhat
missleading and confusing. cutting down on the amount of time/work needed for
the release manager is a different question/problem then "let's remove some of
the files we release to end users"
FWIW: there are a lot of things that could be done to simplify the time/energy
for the release manager. i already tried to suggest some back in LUCENE-5589 --
notably having jenkins automate as much as possible, and switching to (the
more reliable then people.apache.org) dist.apache.org for hosting the RCs,
which would also minimizing the amount of network bandwidth the RC manager has
to use -- my suggestions were dismissed "in toto", w/o any consideration for
the basic premise that the release process might be stream lined & speed up
independently of just trying to hack away and remove bytes from disk.
> Cut binary releases down to a single format
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> Key: LUCENE-6258
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-6258
> Project: Lucene - Core
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Ryan Ernst
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> In LUCENE-6247, one idea discussed to decrease the size of release artifacts
> was removing either tgz or zip from our binary releases.
> The source releases are already only in tgz. I think we should do the same
> for binary releases. I looked at a number of other Apache projects, and the
> results are mixed, but there definitely are many major projects (hadoop,
> couchdb, cassandra, cordova) that only release tgz. Anyone who can deal with
> running using Lucene or Solr should have the skills necessary to extract an
> archive in either format, so in this way I think either format is fine, but I
> think matching what we release source in has a nice look.
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