The source is there so that people that download the binary know that Flume is open source, and can even build it from the binary distro.
Mike On Wednesday, June 27, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Ralph Goers wrote: > I agree, but why is the source code in the binary distribution. That is what > the source distribution is for. > > Ralph > > On Jun 27, 2012, at 5:44 PM, Hari Shreedharan wrote: > > > Hi Ralph, > > > > The target folder from flume-ng-tests will be removed when FLUME-1317 gets > > committed. I am fairly sure this is what makes the tar very large, not the > > source code. > > > > Thanks, > > Hari > > > > -- > > Hari Shreedharan > > > > > > On Wednesday, June 27, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Ralph Goers wrote: > > > > > Why does the distribution tar contain source code? > > > > > > Why does the distribution contain flume-ng-tests/target and everything > > > underneath that? > > > > > > These two things make the distribution very large and are making the > > > Flume build excessively long since the integration tests untar them. For > > > example, on my Mac TestRPCClient took 447 seconds (over 7 minutes). I ran > > > a jstack on it and found that most of the time is spent in readBytes > > > untarring the distribution. > > > > > > Ralph
