Most maven projects I've seen provide two things: - The source distribution of the actual source code required to build the projects. - A link to a maven staging repository with artifacts staged to verify the binary output as well.
When I look at what Tamaya's done, its a library publishing a binary release that wraps all of its JARs together. This is not overly useful. The maven central distribution is enough. Where I do see it useful is something like a standalone server. In the cases of ActiveMQ, Kafka,Cassandra their binary releases make sense since it is something standalone a user can run. John On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 3:08 AM Oliver B. Fischer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > John wrote in a comment on TAMAYA-144: " As a reminder, ASF produces > source releases not binaries." > > I never questioned if we need a binary distribution or not. But as we > also distribute our binaries also via Maven Central may be we should > provide only our source distribution? > > I can't remember when I last time downloaded a jar and added it to the > classpath and... > > WDYT? > > Oliver > > -- > N Oliver B. Fischer > A Schönhauser Allee 64, 10437 Berlin, Deutschland/Germany > P +49 30 44793251 <+49%2030%2044793251> > M +49 178 7903538 <+49%20178%207903538> > E [email protected] > S oliver.b.fischer > J [email protected] > X http://xing.to/obf > >
