I'll second this. It would be great to have a binary distribution with files organized for deployment. The dependent libraries and versions could be listed and downloaded separately.
Thanks, Matt -----Original Message----- From: James Kinley [mailto:jamesrobertkin...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 8:53 AM To: kafka-users@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: ./sbt update Hi Jun, It would be great if the documentation provided a list of the dependencies (and where to get them from) so users could download them separately and transfer them to their build environments, and also some instructions on how to adjust the build script to point to these libs rather than the online repos. Thanks, James. On 10 May 2012 16:09, Jun Rao <jun...@gmail.com> wrote: > James, David, > > We were planning to do a binary distribution. However, it turns out > that it's a lot of work to get all the jars certified in a way > required by Apache. So, we went with a source-only distribution. We > fully understand that this is going to be inconvenient for some users. > If people have better ideas of doing distribution, we'd like to hear them. > > Thanks, > > Jun > > On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 7:42 AM, David Patrick <patri....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I'm actually in a similar boat. Would it be possible to get a "binary" >> version of Kafka available in the downloads section? >> >> Thanks, >> David P. >> >> >> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 10:39 AM, James Kinley >> <jamesrobertkin...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > I'm new to Kafka and I am trying to run "./sbt update" as per >> > instructions but the environment I'm working on doesn't have access >> > to the internet to download the dependencies. >> > >> > Is there any other way to build the distribution? >> > >> > Thanks, James. >> > >>
