Thanks for the pointer, Marcel... I think that is a useful compromise. So, I think we plan that for 3.0 or so, and go with the current "no-deps" approach.
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Marcel Offermans < [email protected]> wrote: > For Apache ACE we ended up creating three archives: src, bin and deps. If > you download src only, you need to make sure you collect/build all deps > yourself. If you also got the deps archive, you could just “drop that in” > and our “bin” made sure it contained “something runnable” (but that’s a bit > different here since ACE is essentially something you can run and Zest is > really a collection of libraries to use in development. > > Greetings, Marcel > > On 28 Jul 2015 at 18:31:02, Niclas Hedhman ([email protected]) wrote: > > Gang, > sorry that I didnät check this earlier, and I vaguely recall that it has > been discussed before.... > > Should the binary release (and the output of the build of the source > release) contain (or not) the exact dependencies used to build the > system?? > > One side of me says; Yes, because that is hard to hunting for if you are > not a Maven addict. > And the other says; No, that becomes a too large download, and you still > don't necesarily get it right since you don't know which jar is needed for > which library. > > > Comments? > > Cheers > -- > Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer > http://zest.apache.org - New Energy for Java > > -- Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer http://zest.apache.org - New Energy for Java
