I'm not sure what .zip files offer that tarballs don't, aside from
potential non-supported OS support, sounds fine to me.

On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 1:46 PM, Andrew Palumbo <[email protected]> wrote:

> It seems redundant to include botha *.zip and a *.tar.gz build for each
> binary distribution build.  I propose that we drop the .zip archive and
> ship only .tar.gz builds with the 0.13.0 distro.  Other projects do this,
> eg. Spark and Zeppelin.  So there is precedent.  If we did this, the
> archives that we would ship would be something like the following:
>
> apache-mahout-0.13.0.tar.gz:
> basic jvm-only build (no native modules included)
>
> apache-mahout-0.13.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz:                  GPU/OpenMP
> build for Linux x86_64 (intel and amd)
>
> apache-mahout-0.13.0-linux-x86_64-avx2.tar.gz:         GPU/OpenMP build
> for Linux x86_64
>          with AVX2 instruction sets (Intel haswell and >  though there is
> also an
>          AVX-512 which is newer, but I think that for now we can allow
>          people to build from src for that)
>
> apache-mahout-0.13.0-mac_os.tar.gz:                            OpenMP
> only for mac
>
>
> Thoughts?
>
>

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