Out builds have been continuing to produce .zip/.tar. gz files bundling "a complete runnable xalan with dependencies and documentation" (bin) and "source files as if you had gotten them from git" (src), for convenient one-download retrieval from the website. This dates back to when networks were much slower, storage was much smaller, and "dependencies upon demand" fetching from Maven Central didn't yet exist.
Does anyone still have hard dependencies on those distribution zipfile? They're a bit of a pain to maintain, and ideally I'd like to stop producing them and just tell users to pick binary off Central and source off Git. But I wanted to give the community a chance to object before I make that change. There might be some reason I'm not seeing that we would need to continue providing these. -- /_ Joe Kesselman (he/him/his) -/ _) My Alexa skill for New Music/New Sounds fans: / https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09WJ3H657/ Caveat: Opinionated old geezer with overcompensated writer's block. May be redundant, verbose, prolix, sesquipedalian, didactic, officious, or redundant.
