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Sebastian Nagel updated NUTCH-2428:
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Fix Version/s: 2.5
> Provide binary release for Nutch
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> Key: NUTCH-2428
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUTCH-2428
> Project: Nutch
> Issue Type: Wish
> Components: build
> Affects Versions: 2.3
> Reporter: Karl Richter
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: 2.5
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> I've been trying to setup a Nutch instance several times over the years, but
> never managed because it's so hard to configure the instance based on some
> parts of the 1.x tutorial and some parts of the 2.x tutorial which I had to
> figure out in trial and error mostly (and 2^[# of configuration steps] is a
> time consuming list of options to try). I already torpedoed the JIRA instance
> with a lot of issues, but now that I'm taking another approach, I don't think
> I can report them all and you might not want that.
> I'd be nice to have a binary release of Nutch which works with a default
> non-production configuration which can be changed via the web UI since
> editing configuration files is just overly painful and makes the software
> appear in some pre-alpha state in which it is not (download of binary
> archive, extracting, `bin/nutch start-web` and opening localhost:8080 should
> get you started).
> Nutch is important and very smart software. I'd be nice if it was so hard to
> use for no apparent reason (except devs resources of course).
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUTCH-728 covers releases, but it's
> been closed and there's no binary release available for download. Debian
> packages as suggested in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUTCH-1285
> don't make sense because they're not very flexible; they should be
> low-priority. Things might be clearer after [migration to
> Maven](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NUTCH-2292) is done.
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